Microfictions

Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger compete to out-fool each other. Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito's point of view or showing us what happens "after" the princess kisses the frog, Ana Maria Shua, in these fleet and incandescent stories, is nothing if not pithy--except, of course, wildly entertaining....