Pocket-sized Yarns

By Indie Writers

Pocket-Sized Yarns, little in size, but large in wonder. Discover a tapestry woven from yarns 540 words or less in length.

Romance - time travel - nightmares - memory loss - canine companions - and drunken authors! Welcome to the world of flash fiction. Read one now - tuck another in your pocket for later.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Indie Writers
• Release date: Oct 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311890634

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Pocket-sized Yarns

An Indie Micro Story Collection

Smashwords Edition

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Contributing Authors:

Athena Crowley

Chris Heath

Christopher D. Votey

D.M. Wolfenden

David Rose

James Field

Joe Prentis

Jourdan Cameron

Kathleen Garlock

Marise Ghorayeb

Michael Gardner

Shanna Lauffey

Wilde Blue Sky

Pocket-sized Yarns

An Indie Micro Story Collection

Smashwords Edition

ISBN: 9781311890634

Copyright © 2014 by; Athena Crowley, Chris Heath, Christopher D. Votey, D.M. Wolfenden, David Rose, James Field, Joe Prentis, Jourdan Cameron, Kathleen Garlock, Marise Ghorayeb, Michael Gardner, Shanna Lauffey, and Wilde Blue Sky.

All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the authors’ imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Project Coordinator: Michael Gardner

Cover design: Chris Heath

Table of Contents:

Dedication

Editors Note

Foreword

540 Words (not including the title or front matter) ~ Michael Gardner

Super Dog ~ Marise Ghorayeb

Sluggish Bullet ~ James Field

Gunfight ~ Christopher D. Votey

Shot at the Top ~ Wilde Blue Sky

Say What? ~ Joe Prentis

Syd’s Ruse ~ Chris Heath

Predator ~ David Rose

The File ~ Michael Gardner

Captive ~ Kathleen Garlock

The Block Machine ~ Athena Crowley

A Secret Twice Hidden ~ Shanna Lauffey

The Rest of the Story ~ Joe Prentis

At First Sight ~ Kathleen Garlock

The Shield ~ Athena Crowley

Bad Dreams ~ D.M. Wolfenden

Silent ~ Wilde Blue Sky

Blind Agnes ~ James Field

Faithful ~ David Rose

White Bat ~ Jourdan Cameron

The Lint at the Bottom of the Pocket

Haiku for the Lint ~ Kathleen Garlock

The driving adventures of a car-o-phobic ~ Marise Ghorayeb

Time to Panic ~ David Rose

Haiku for Pocket-sized Yarns ~ James Field

From the continuing sagas of dumb mutt (three non-fiction nano-yarns) ~ Marise Ghorayeb

Cliff’s Edge (A 50 Word Story) ~ Michael Gardner

Seven Blessings ~ David Rose

Dedication

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Editors Note

According to Post Modern literary theory, The Author, like God, is dead. As I commented to one of our contributors while doing the editorial work for this volume, Post Modern literary theory is becoming just one more literary tradition. Not dead, thank goodness, but heading in the direction of being memorialised. The Author - well, writers anyway - is alive, well, writing and kicking butt. See them kick butt in this book!

As a writer I can create and destroy characters at will. I enjoy it very much. As the Editor and Grammar Policeman of the Yarns, my sole aim was to encourage and nurture the contributors and put the very best of their work on the page for you to enjoy. This has been a great experience for me. Everyone involved has given so much, and freely, in every sense. It restores your faith in Human Nature, something too much focus on Post Modern literary theory is likely to erode, unless you’re completely devoted to it. I’m not.

I love the varied and exciting stories these talented writers have told. There are great differences of style and approach. That is all part of the pleasure of the text - jouissance - as mon vieux ami Roland Barthes named it. He