Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories

by Tom Hazuka, Dinty W. Moore (Editor)

Overview

From Dinty W. Moore, founding editor of the popular journal Brevity and prolific and pioneering author of several books of creative nonfiction, including Between Panic and Desire, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, and Crafting the Personal Essay, and Tom Hazuka, editor of the anthology Flash Fiction Funny, comes a new book that will make you laugh out loud in 750 words or less! Flash Nonfiction Funny explores the exploding form of very short creative writing and offers an accessible anthology that’s perfect for individual entertainment or in a classroom setting. Teachers are increasingly embracing the very short form because it lets them use brief pieces to illustrate various styles and structures. The anthology includes work from both new and established writers from all over the world. It’s like they always say: It’s funny because it’s true!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997543742
Publisher:	Woodhall Press
Publication date:	03/01/2018
Series:	Flash Nonfiction
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Tom Hazuka has published three novels, over sixty-five short stories and two books of nonfiction, both co-written with C.J. Jones (A Method to March Madness: An Insider’s Look at the Final Four and A Summer That Can Change Your Life: A History of the Educational Opportunity Program at Central Connecticut State University). He has edited or co-edited nine anthologies, including Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Funny, Flash Nonfiction Food, Sudden Flash Youth and You Have Time for This. Links to his writing and original songs can be found at tomhazuka.com.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Brian Doyle Stuff the Dog Ate, 1

Charles Rafferty What Fathers Say, What Daughters Hear, 3

Caitlin Brady When the GOP Takes Away My Birth Control,

How Will I Know What Day It Is?, 6

Jody Mace The Insomniac’s To-Do List, 8

B. A. East Transition Brief, 11

Brian Bedard Stand-Up Comedian, 14

Allison K. Williams Keep Calm and Kill These Mimes, 16

Chris Offutt Hardware, 19

Lorrie McDole Bride of Christ, 21

Denis Horgan Throw Them Off the Train, 23

Helena de Bres Writing Advice to My Students that Would

Also Have Been Good Sex Advice for My

High-School Boyfriends, 25

Dani Johannesen Intro to Creative Writing, 26

Thaddeus Rutkowski On My Head, 29

Wendy Brenner For a Friend Who Has Deactivated

Her Facebook Account, 31

Sarah Einstein How to Die Alone, 33

Ravi Shankar The Top Ten Reasons It’s Awesome

to Be a Tam-Bram American, 35

Sandra Gail Lambert Horror in the Okefenokee Swamp, 38

Lise Funderburg What Bad Owners Say at the Dog Park, 40

Michael Martone A Contributor’s Note, 41

Judy Millar Kissing for Klutzes, 43

Mark Budman Gained in Translation:

A Real-Life Play in One Act, 45

Suzanne Strempek Shea And a Free Box of Forty, 48

Leah Williams You and That Mad Cow, 50

Josh Couvares Pillars of the Community, 52

Susan Lerner What You Need to Feed Your Baby, 54

Kathryn Fitzpatrick An Angry Letter to Starbucks, 57

Jim Shea Don’t Bed Down with a Canine, 59

Kim Addonizio Cocktail Time, 61

Sarah Wesley Lemire The Bad Passenger, 63

Chelsea Biondilillo An Objective Look at My Seven Graduate

School Rejections, 65

Paul Beckman Nothing Happened, 67

V. Hansmann Barking, 70

Dani Burlison An Open Letter to Future Ex-Boyfriends

About How to Apologize for Wrongdoings

at the End of Our Relationship, 72

Tom Hazuka Nasty Habits, 75

Renée E. D’Aoust My Dachshund Talk Italian One Day, 77

Dinty W. Moore Free Tibet, Man!, 80

Amy Shaw The Tail End, 81

Ron Carlson Christmas Letter, 83

Gina Barreca Sex and the Socratic Method, 84

Scott Loring Sanders Argument with Myself on How to Write

a Competent Essay, 86

Lisa Romeo The Long Pink Line, 89

Douglass Bourne Bridge Metaphors Used During the Meeting

with Department Heads, 92

Juliana Gray Life Among the Yankees, 94

Terri Favro Inner Nonna, 96

Liane Kupferberg Carter Gadget Graveyard, 98

Nick Hoppe It’s Not Always Easy Being a Man, 100

Jenny Klion Jobs, A to Z, 102

Sven Birkerts Hard-On, 105

Robin Hemley The Dachshund Endures, 107

Meg Pokrass Playing the Chicken, 109

Sam Ferrigno Boy Leaves Connecticut for New York,

Becomes Nervous, 111

R. C. Van Horn 1-800-UHOH, 113

Diane Payne How I Ended Up Nearly Bald, 115

Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur Popcorn for Ling-Ling Nguyen, 117

Beth Levine The Tao of Weighing In, 120

Ashley Chantler Happier Than, 122

Anna Vodicka An Open Letter to a Traveling Salesman,

Sugar Camp, Wisconsin, Circa 1996, 125

Candy Schulman Résumé of a Desperate College Grad, 127

Fiona Tinwei Lam Nipples, 131

Josh Russell Bone & Ants, 133