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This collection ends with three words: pure, sweet, uncluttered. These adjectives describe the possibility of happiness, but they also describe the author's writing style.
The women in I Call This Flirting are vivid and intense. The men are enigmatic though very closely observed. Cats figure in many of the scenes. As do pies--burned pies and beautiful pies. Also screen doors and the sky and the ground and sex.
Such good writing. ...more
The women in I Call This Flirting are vivid and intense. The men are enigmatic though very closely observed. Cats figure in many of the scenes. As do pies--burned pies and beautiful pies. Also screen doors and the sky and the ground and sex.
Such good writing. ...more
One of my favorite flash fiction books. She is especially talented with condensing and layering time, and she gets lots of credit for experimenting and taking chances.
I bought up a bunch of copies of this collection to use in my writing class at Saint Joseph's University. First, the writing is so great: "Love is an ocean, pounding and pounding on the rocks, like Christmas tree lights blinking in a window, beckoning." The movement from ocean, to the rhythmic pounding, to the blinking of lights awes me. And I love the way the sentence ends with "beckoning." So many sentences are like this. Such brilliance! There's an urgency and longing in the writing and stori
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Just received my copy of this, I'm very eager to read Sherrie Flick's chapbook.
Okay, read it and whooosh, loved it very much. My favorite of the whole collection was "Nebraska Men" which begins with this odd, perfect sentence: "In Nebraska men keep small colorful seashells in their mouths." ...more
Okay, read it and whooosh, loved it very much. My favorite of the whole collection was "Nebraska Men" which begins with this odd, perfect sentence: "In Nebraska men keep small colorful seashells in their mouths." ...more
Dec 20, 2008
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marked it as to-read
