title: Nickel Fictions: 50 Exceedingly Brief Stories
author:  Bob Thurber 
description: If you look for good short-short fictions either on the Web or in print, you'll spend plenty of time feeling annoyed. The flush of popularityenjoyed by the micro form is not yet translating into good stories.They're damned hard to write -- that's one possible reason. The other is that most flash fiction writers have no idea of how to go about it.<br /><br /><b>In my literary career I've come across no more than a half dozen writers capable of writingliterary micro fictions. <i>Bob Thurber is the Maestro of these oddities.</i></b>
zlib_text: BIG MAN’S HEAT
  PENNY WYLDER
  
  C O NTENTS
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  1 . Mark
  2 . Siobhan
  3 . Mark
  4 . Siobhan
  5 . Mark
  6 . Siobhan
  7 . Mark
  8 . Siobhan
  9 . Mark
  1 0 . Siobhan
  1 1 . Siobhan
  1 2 . Mark
  1 3 . Siobhan
  Epilogue
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  MAR K
  “You're really doing this, huh?”
  “Doing what?” Ryder asks me as if he has no clue what I'm
  