Flicker: A Collection Of Short Stories And Poetry eBook

Flicker is an eclectic collection of short stories and poetry spanning the full range of human experience — from whimsical fairy tales and speculative fiction to quiet moments of grief, humor, and unexpected grace. Gathered from the years 2013-2015, these ninety works range from haiku and hint fiction to flash fiction and longer short stories, many of which were previously published in literary magazines.Within these pages you'll find a boy with the gift of making things grow, a teenage girl navigating an alien-occupied Earth, a medieval schoolteacher who handles her worst students with a warrior's ingenuity, a teenage boy who learns that the rarest gift a visitor can bring is simply seeing you, and dozens more voices and worlds — light and heavy, real and speculative, earthbound and otherworldly.Forty-eight works in this collection were previously published. Forty-two appear here for the first time. Each piece is accompanied by an author's note.For readers who love short fiction, poetry, and stories that linger.