In A Flash

In a Flash, the eSpec Books annual flash fiction anthology, features the highlights of the press's monthly flash fiction contests from the preceding year. This collection of speculative microfiction runs the gambit from steampunk, westerns, and urban fantasy to science fiction and horror, with stories by Christopher J. Burke, Jim Knipp, Herika R Raymer, Anton Kukal, Marie Vibbert, CB Droege, David Bartell, Jeff Young, Rie Sheridan Rose, Jean Buie, David M. Hoenig, and Jamie Gilman Kress.

Who says there never enough time anymore? Help yourself to twenty tales of wit and wonder for those with but a little time to read. Pick up Christopher J. Burke's debut collection of award-winning flash fiction for a quick trip through the whimsical to magical to speculative and back again. • A space-traveling hustler gets taken, but can't bring himself to mind in the afterglow. • Playing fetch takes a darker turn as a man who hears dogs' thoughts encounters a hellhound. • A disturbing young man brings a whole new meaning to the term 'writer's block.' • With the edges of the galaxy to explore, for one convict, solitary confinement is more than worth doing extra time. • A young visionary is on to a hot new idea, but it takes an outside perspective to give it a brilliant spin. And many more fantastic tales to transport you for just a moment or two...there and back again In a Flash!

Who says there never enough time anymore?Help yourself to thirty-one tales and poems of wit and wonder for those with but a little time to read. Pick up Danielle Ackley-McPhail's collected flash fiction for a quick trip through the whimsical to magical to speculative and back again.When a lunch lady sees it all, including the goblin apocalypse.A mermaid dreams of swimming through the sky.A young girl's maddening descent into the world of red.Cadet Alexander must conquer the mountain... her own squad... and the local fauna... in an exercise to prove her mettle.Have you ever looked into the heart of a star? Do so, and come away forever changed.And many more fantastic tales to transport you for just a moment or two...there and back again In a Flash!