
In 1986, Robert Shapard and James
Thomas edited the inaugural offering in what would become a series of story collections. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
is considered the first well-known compilation...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka