There has been quite a bit of attention draw to Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit, a collection of micro-fictions from Publishing Genius Press, so I wanted to take the opportunity to draw readers to another older book (2004) that has many of the same components of well-written, tightly-wound, intensely-structured lit:
Little War Machine, by M Sarki, available from Ravenna Press, also works in micro-phrases and with a high emphasis on the perfectly neutered sentence, leaving to us the bulk of extrapolation.
Such as:
Long Robes Sublime
She sees
her sun now
as first love.
Aged beside
indifference.
Her lips
opening each can.
Or:
The Temporary Gent
He favors
landscapes
imposed severely.
Then swerves
beneath
her clothes.
See?
Check out this book at Ravenna Press.
And check out Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit too from Publishing Genius.
Lit, lit, lit.