Flicker: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry

Flicker is an eclectic collection of short stories and poetry spanning the full range of human experience — from whimsical fairy tales and speculative fiction to quiet moments of grief, humor, and unexpected grace. Gathered from the years 2013–2015, these ninety works range from haiku and hint fiction to flash fiction and longer short stories, many of which were previously published in literary magazines.Within these pages you'll find a boy with the gift of making things grow, a teenage girl navigating an alien-occupied Earth, a medieval schoolteacher who handles her worst students with a warrior's ingenuity, a teenage boy who learns that the rarest gift a visitor can bring is simply seeing you, and dozens more voices and worlds — light and heavy, real and speculative, earthbound and otherworldly.Forty-eight works in this collection were previously published. Forty-two appear here for the first time. Each piece is accompanied by an author's note.For readers who love short fiction, poetry, and stories that linger.