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New releases from Hawaii authors

"New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond"

Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
W.W. Norton $15.95
Editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas selected sixty short stories from thousands of books and magazines and created this paperback. The list of authors include: Lan samantha Chang, Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff.

"Flash Fiction Forward"

Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
W.W. Norton $15.95
This is a a follow-up to the first "Flash Fiction" anthology published a decade ago. This collection of 80 extremely short stories forced the editors to tackle the question: "How short can a story be and truly be a story?" The list of authors include: Ron carlson, Robert Coover, Amy Hempel, Grace Paley, Pamela Painter, and Paul Theroux.