I've been nibbling on this book for about a year. It enticed me to pick it up off the shelf because it had one of my favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine stories in it: a story written in only a handful of sentences, told through parenthetical info in between the "main" sentences of the story. And I've been reading stories from it since. It's the book I go to in my library when I have a few minutes in between work and other such distractions.
For those of you who enjoy a touch of postapocalyptic realism to help you appreciate what you have, this is quite a good read.
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I've heard of these "short-short" fiction stories. Got any other good ones to recommend? I imagine that'd be a hard medium to get right, but I'm interested in learning more about the pulp/serial/short format.
I've really enjoyed Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, the urban fantasy anthologies (like Mean Streets and Side Jobs), and Tor has done a great job with their short fiction in their Tor.com newsletters (and then ported to Amazon, etc.).
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