FLASH FICTION PLUS

About the Book

Flash Fiction is the current term of choice for the short-short story-a fast-paced, pared-down narrative parcel which can be read on short subway rides, often between stops. In this funny, heart-warming and sometimes eerie collection, you will encounter:

• An anonymous message of such diabolical power it turns any recipient into an emotional basket case.
• An eager young teacher who experiences the most catastrophic lesson-plan failure in human history.
• A suburban husband who gets the motor vehicle department to issue him a license plate that the New York Times won't print.
• A college professor who parlays a passing thought into a full-fledged new university.
• A resentful office worker who discovers just how wildly a symbolic act of revenge can boomerang.
• A truth teller whose last lesson in life is that nobody wants to learn the truth.
• The purveyor of a fantastic invention whose real purpose is not, nor cannot be stated.
• A conniving suburbanite who exploits crime-catching data technology to cover his crime.
• A bank ATM that brings human-machine interaction to a whole new level.
• A college president who devises the ultimate retrenchment plan.

FLASH FICTION PLUS also includes a number of plays and regular-length stories for those not infrequent occasions when the subway ride turns out longer than expected.

About the Author

John B. Haney is a retired professor of media studies, whose stories have appeared in specialized magazines, plays at New York venues including the Village Gate, and opinion pieces in the New York Times and Newsday.