200 Shorts

by Salvatore Buttaci

Overview

Master of the Flash is back! In his new collection of 200 short-short stories, Salvatore Buttaci introduces us to characters hard to forget. In less than 1,000 words they tell stories of humor, hidden emotions, love, nostalgia, violence, time and space travel, and downright horror. The author's flashes appeal to all readers in search of a good read worth the purchase price. It won't be so easy putting this book down.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012786968
Publisher:	All Things That Matter Press
Publication date:	06/26/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	259 KB

About the Author

Salvatore Buttaci is a retired English teacher who has been writing since childhood. His first published work, an essay entitled "Presidential Timber," appeared in the Sunday New York News when he was sixteen. Since then his poems, letters, short stories, and articles have been widely published in The New York Times, Newsday, U.S.A. Today, The Writer, Cats Magazine, and elsewhere in America and overseas. In 2001, Pudding House Publications included his work in the Greatest Hits Series with his chapbook, Greatest Hits: 1970-2000. He was also the 2007 recipient of the $500.00 Cyber-wit Poetry Award.

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on his Sicilian heritage and his experience as a writer and a teacher, Salvatore Buttaci has excelled in this presentation of 200 SHORTS (flash fiction).

In bite sized stories, and with humor and grace, Salvatore treats us to a compilation which has us laughing, crying, smiling, thinking.

He's a beautiful writer! His last book FLASHING MY SHORTS won much acclaim. Go on: add these books to your reading lists - treat yourself and buy one, or two, or three. Friends will lo

Eliza Earsman

Sal Buttaci is a master of flash fiction, those short prose pieces that tell a story in two sentences or two pages. This is his second publication of short fiction, and contains for the most part stories of an Italian boy growing up in New York or New Jersey with his immigrant parents and grandparents. I have suspicions that "Antonio Lanzetti" bears sharp resemblance to Sal. The stories abound with incidents in Catholic schoolrooms commandeered by stern Sisters, dangerous characters in the immig

Jean Rodenbough