Flashes from the Other World

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Overview

Magic without the hocus pocus, these stories explore the ethereal blur between
reality and not, between dream and sleep, between love and 'other than' love. They
present relationships with a tender wackiness. Tossed into the mix are
mischievous ghosts, who give the talking...
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Overview

Magic without the hocus pocus, these stories explore the ethereal blur between
reality and not, between dream and sleep, between love and 'other than' love. They
present relationships with a tender wackiness. Tossed into the mix are
mischievous ghosts, who give the talking plants and even the seductive and vocal
grains of sand a run for their money.
Quirky and offbeat, these stories will touch your heart, although they may tug at
your funny bone first.
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Editorial Reviews

Jen Knox
Julie Ann Weinstein writes in a refreshing, sharp style that is perfectly suited to flash fiction. Her stories are filled with haunting scenarios and wildly funny characters, who are as unpredictable as they are endear-ing.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get away; to anyone who loves to read but never finds the time; and to anyone who loves a good short story. Flashes From the Other World is aptly titled—the stories offer pure escapism in short form.
~Jen Knox, Autho
Kenneth Weene
As a child I loved to walk in spring snows, to lose self and reality in powder puffs of possibility and anonymity. The daydreams of those walks – filled as they were with calm beauty and dangerous momentous-ness – were long ago lost to time and age. Now, in this gracefully written book of short fiction, I have been able to regain that wonderful sense of life.
~Kenneth Weene, author of Memoirs From the Asylum and Widow’s Walk
Salvatore Buttaci
Readers of Julie Weinstein's Flashes from the Other World will gladly find themselves lifted story by story on a true reading adventure. Her descriptive scenes are that vividly real! Here is an author whose word choice is pure magic. From the paranormal, to relationships, to the surreal, these flash stories will delight readers in search of a book worth many times its price!
~Salvatore Buttaci, author of Flashing My Shorts
Traci Foust
With a keen minimalist eye and a knifelike accuracy of just where the edge is, Weinstein is the angry orphaned child of Palahniuk and Octavia Butler. These stories are disturbingly correct, commanding and gorgeous.
~Traci Foust, Nowhere Near Normal
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780984621644
  • Publisher: All Things That Matter Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/2010
  • Pages: 162
  • Product dimensions: 9.02 (w) x 5.98 (h) x 0.35 (d)

Meet the Author

Julie Ann Weinstein has published over ninety short
stories and is a Pushcart Nominee. She is an editorial
consultant and a flash fiction workshop leader in the
Southern California area.
Julie is also published under the name Julie Ann
Shapiro. She currently lives in Encinitas, California,
where she is working on future short story collections.
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  • Posted December 21, 2011

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    Definite Thought Provoking stories

    This is metaphorical writing at its best. The author has divided her book into three parts. Part one is a collection of paranormal stories. The are very short and bizarre. Not bizarre in a bad way. Bizarre in the sense they make you think. They have a depth to them that makes you wonder if there is a deeper meaning, a hidden meaning.
    The second part of the book is called relationships. The first story grabbed me and made me hold on. Maybe it is because my mom has to live with me now that I could see parallels between the relationship the daughter had with her mother and my own. It takes great talent to write from the heart and attain such a deep meaning that will be read and interpreted differently by each reader.
    The third part of the book is called Surreal. I enjoyed ¿Blue Moon Carbs¿. This is a book where the reader is free and encouraged to make all kinds of connections. As I try to lose weight this one story stood out. It felt like I was reading the battle that goes on in my head every time I eat something that could potentially cause me to gain weight. I loved it. My favorite part of this book was actually in the back where the author explains what inspired her to write each of her stories. Her explanations made me go back and re-read some of the stories as I looked at them through the eyes of what inspired her. It put a truly different spin on it. This is not an easy book to describe. I will recommend it. Just don¿t pick it up for a quick read because that is the one thing it is not.

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  • Posted March 12, 2011

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    A Fascinating Journey of Flash Fiction and Short Stories

    A bit of whimsy, a dash of the occult, a taste of madness, a trace of sentiment only touch on what you will find in Julie Ann Weinstein's' Flashes From the Other World.'

    Flash fiction at its finest as you enter Ms. Weinstein's take on the world of the Paranormal, Relationships and Surrealism.

    To hit on a few, 'Summer Flip Flops' left me feeling the sweetness of lost love as well as the horror of premature death.

    'Red Dot', a short story struck a perfect note with use of adjectives getting right to the heart of deep regret, sorrow and guilt over actions and decisions made in life. Doubt anyone could read this tale without shedding a few tears and relating to the characters feelings. The flash fiction mastery of

    'Doll Finders', where Ms. Weinstein, in one final compelling sentence, tells a complete story, summing up years of heartfelt pain as a janitor glances into a trash bin.

    Ah, could not write a review without the mention of 'Ice Cream Man', which held me glued to the page with anticipation until the ultimate outcome. Not wanting to give away the story, I will say taking the pleasure of a child's delight to hear that ice cream truck in the distance and adding a twist of fate, a morsel of danger shows the mastery of flash fiction at its finest.

    The ability to write short stories and flash fiction with variety and depth of meaning is not an easy task for any author. Ms. Weinstein has expertly mastered the craft, as you shall experience when reading each story within 'Flashes From the Other World.'

    Her use of inanimate objects...a doll, a shoe, streaming water...provides unique edginess, mystery and intrigue that flows from each tale. You definitely will not want to miss the magic of her words as they draw you into her mystical realm of surrealism, fantasy, thought and reality.

    I can assure you, it will not disappoint.

    Monica M. Brinkman,
    Author of The Turn of the Karmic Wheel

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  • Posted March 10, 2011

    Julie's Other World

    Julie Weinstein's new collection of flash fiction is an amazing universe of imagination. Yet these moments, briefly described, carry with them the necessary reality that keeps the reader turning the pages. Flowers talk, toys communicate, odd items mislaid in public places take on new significance, the dead return to share important news, creatures communicate . . . there is little in this world, or some other world, that escapes notice.

    At times I recognized my own kind of wild dreams being described by the author. I am familiar with that disconnected fantasy that delivers a message we must take in. How do we relate to these stories? They must be received with an openness to whatever creative gifts Weinstein empowers them with. Nothing is beyond examining in an other-worldly merger with our own. To ignore these stories as pure imagination belies the truths embedded there which are opened to us when we make the effort to understand. Read these flash moments and be enlightened.

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  • Posted March 10, 2011

    Peek a boo..Julie Ann is watching you

    I always suspected Ms. Julie Ann was very close to me. Closer than a touch; just beyond a breath. I can liken the feeling of crossing the street without a care in the world until a memory plays tricks with the pavement, and the earth is suddenly transformed. The mind has already been been swallowed by the groping of hungry hands even before the feet have been sold for sausage at the suicide stands. But no, it is nothing of the sort. The light has changed and I am safely brought to the other side. Or am I?

    Flashes from the Other World is both--one of the scariest, as well as most exhilarating novels I have read in a long time. I defy the reader to find a safe place to read this. Julie Ann's other worldly fellows are too enlivened to be dismissed; too needy to be assuaged in any safe corner.

    Forgive me but the images of scrabble pieces rebelling into the clattering of sexual dalliances, or the icy fingertips of freckled child pornographers grappling with brassiere hooks are told so matter of fact as to be totally terrifying.

    I give this book five stars because of the magic and the promise that this authoress brings to our literary establishment. Now, I've decided to be more mean-spirited with my reviews. Yes, it is true that Julie Ann writes for my own publishing company. But I tell you truth. I think this writer is very close to the heartbeat of her audience. She sees beyond the real to the palpable heart-stone--and beyond.

    I think she may be intent upon engaging her audience in something extra-ordinary. And I think she succeeds. Reading Flashes, one must re-read passages. But the closer the introspection, the realization that to truly be part of her visions, the reader must relinquish controls. Tripping, footless, it is not altogether certain, one will reach the other side except for the soft landings this master crafts-person provides.
    Robert Rubenstein
    Author,Ghost Runners

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  • Posted March 9, 2011

    A Wonderful Ride

    Julie Ann Weinstein writes in a refreshing, sharp style that is perfectly suited to flash fiction. Her stories are filled with haunting scenarios and wildly funny characters, who are as unpredictable as they are endearing.

    I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get away; to anyone who loves to read but never finds the time; and to anyone who loves a good short story. Flashes From the Other World is aptly titled--the stories offer pure escapism in short form.

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