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Wild Life is a collection thirty four 34 undomesticated flash fiction pieces Keep this book on your bedside table Dog ear it until all the pages are folded Read it in the bath, teach it, store it in your bag, recite it on street corners When people stop to ask you what you are doing, tell them that you are reading aloud from a collection by the best flash fiction writer in America Amelia Gray, Author of AM PM and Museum of The Weird People often say the purpose of flash fiction is to shine a spotlight, to illuminate, to light up our lives, a flash of insight This to me has always seemed a dull reason to do anything, much less write or read flash fiction And I think Kathy Fish proves the point, here in this book Who cares what she may teach us, in flashes of blinding light or otherwise, in these stories so carefully built, so wonderfully turned of phrase What Kathy does is expose us not to insight but to mystery She puts us in the middle of these worlds she s made and says, Look what I ve seen And then when we do, when we come to these stories ends, we shudder with confusion and love Joseph Young, Author of Easter Rabbit and Name Free Read [ Wild Life ] by [ Kathy Fish ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Honestly I m a little nonplussed with Flash Fiction Even when filled with scalpel sharp bits of description and haunting or resonant moments like these, they seem to end quickly too really be felt Each flashes briefly and then is swallowed up by dark, unconnected to the fragments before and after besides perhaps by a few thematic threads But then, I tend to prefer novels over stories in most cases as well, even within a single author s work.Also, what exactly separates flash fiction from pro Honestly I m a little nonplussed with Flash Fiction Even when filled with scalpel sharp bits of description and haunting or resonant moments like these, they seem to end quickly too really be felt Each flashes briefly and then is swallowed up by dark, unconnected to the fragments before and after besides perhaps by a few thematic threads But then, I tend to prefer novels ove...Two recent reviews of Wild Life A review by Richard Thomas at Outsider Writers Collective and at review by Roxane Gay at Beyond the MarginsIf you re like me, when you finish the brilliant new chapbook Wild Life just about every other page will be dog eared From the prodigal brother eating watermelon in the dark, to the Payless shoe store clerk who may or may not be a child abductor, to the couple with the new bed, you will turn the last page of this book and feel as though you have entered a truly beautiful and brilliant mind And that mind belongs to the book s author, Kathy Fish Fish s wry humor, keen vision, and deft language If you re like me, when you finish the brilliant new chapbook Wild Life just about every other page will be dog eared From the prodigal brother eating watermelon in the dark, to the Pay...You have to write flash fiction to know how damn good Kathy Fish is, she makes it look so effortless But it takes a lot of skill to produce the little gems she writes This is a wonderful flash collection Loved the stories, the depth, and the originality, and even the cover.ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT OUTSIDER WRITERS COLLECTIVE.In Kathy Fish s slim volume of flash and micro fiction stories, Wild Life, she splits the collection into two halves, the first entitled Wild The lioness is crouching and the second entitled Life Grundy Triplets Perish Unnecessarily And there is a reason for this While both sections deal with family even though the subtitle to the collection is a collection of undomesticated flash fictions the first part has a feeling of chaos, a ORIGINA...Almost weekly I read SmokeLong Quarterly with massive admiration and literary lust When I applied for this literary magazine s Kathy Fish Fellowship last year for this year s 2016 fellowship, I was pleased as punch to get to the second round of selections top 78 writers out of 300 flash fiction writers I ll take it So, this summer, before I applied again for the 2017 Kathy Fish Fellowship in September 2016 I made it my J O B to read lots of Lydia Davis and Kathy Fish to conjure their w Almost weekly I read SmokeLong Quarterly with massive admiration and literary lust When I applied for this literary magazine s Kathy Fish Fellowship last year for this year s 2016 fellowship, I was pleased as punch to get to the second round of selections top 78 writers out of 300 flash fiction writers I ll take it So, this summer, before I applied again for the 2017 Kathy Fish Fellowship in September 2016 I made it my J O B to read lots of Lydia Davis and Kathy Fish to conjure their writerly mojo and learn from these short form masters Fish s collection, Wild Life, did not disappoint Starry night s...This book is a gem No, that s clich d though it s true The book is harder, sharper, stronger it s a weapon to help you tame the beasts that Kathy Fish has unleashed on the page Many of these beasts aren t animals at all, they re human and that is what Fish does so very well humanity My favorite stories are near the end Spin, The Bed and Tenderoni they re about the struggle to get close to one another Wild Life in Kathy Fish s magical world of very short stories is a very large world This book is a gem No, that s clich d though it s true The book is harder, sharper, stronger it s a weapon to help you tame the beasts that Kathy Fish has unleashed on the page Many of these beasts aren t animals at all, they re human and that is what Fish does so very well humanity My favorit...Kathy Fish s previous collection sat amidst the other also stellar words in Rose Metal s A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women, and her words there made me eager for her words elsewhere Luckily, through the new editorial hands of Matter Press, run by the esteemed author Randall Brown, we have this new book to fill our need Wild Life, a collection of undomesticated flash fictions Read the full review interview at Monkeybicycle Kathy Fish s previous collection sat amidst the other also stellar words in Rose Metal s A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women, and her words there made me eager for her words elsewhere Luckily, through the new editorial hands of Matter Press, run by the este...Clear, cutting prose from a deft, honest writer I m not, in general, a fan of flash fiction, but these stories were incisive and insightful I found myself taking a break after most of the stories to digest each one, so a book I could have read in...Kathy Fish s collection Wild Life is divided into halves first a set of stories gathered under the heading Wild, and a second under Life In a surprise to no one familiar with my reading habits obsessions, I preferred Wild to Life, which based on a number of other reviews on Goodreads puts me in the minority The earlier stories are often set in the outdoors, and involve wild places and creatures, butthan that there s a wildness to the stories themselves They re moments of myth m Kathy Fish s collection Wild Life is divided into halves first a set of stories gathered under the heading Wild, and a second under Life In a surprise to no one familiar with my reading habits obsessions, I preferred Wild to Life, which based on a number of other reviews on Goodreads puts me in the minority The earlier stories are often set in the outdoors, and involve wild places and creatures, butthan that there s a wildness to the stories themselves They re moments of myth making tucked into what seem like otherwise ordinary lives, featuring events in which characters lives point toward stories of themselves larger ...

Wild Life
  • English
  • 12 November 2017
  • Paperback
  • 72 pages
  • 9780983792
  • Kathy Fish
  • Wild Life