Expansive Stories On Small Canvases
In Small Worlds, Gail Vida Hamburg delivers a collection of flash fiction and microfiction
that captures the messy, often absurd architecture of human lives-compressed
into moments of sharp beauty, sly humor, and unsettling truth.
From slow dances that never end, to customer service calls that turn into romances,
to rebellious seniors plotting a great escape, these stories chronicle the intimate and the epic in miniature.
Here, love is both a balm and a weapon. Loneliness births imaginary friends.
Deviants justify cruelty with high-minded philosophy.
And in the end, everyone is seeking-connection, redemption, or simply a way out.
With razor-sharp wit and unsparing insight, Small Worlds invites readers
to peer into the condensed universes we each inhabit-worlds where longing, compulsion, invention,
and self-rationale collide.
What's the sum of a life? A moment. A sentence. A breath.
This collection of flash fiction and microfiction is a meditation
on the art of compression and the expansive truths that reside in the smallest spaces.
Stories as Mughal Miniature Art and Rice Grain Paintings