Review: The Youngest Boy, by Jim Heynen FICTION: Jim Heynen s collection of short-short stories offers flashes of the beauty and solitude of a rural childhood.
By Kathleen Rooney Special to the Star Tribune April 9, 2021 8:38am Text size Copy shortlink:
In a literary landscape that still privileges the rather grandiose notion of the Great American Novel, to describe a piece of writing as a sketch or a vignette or a slice of life can come across as damning with faint praise. But as fans of flash fiction short-short stories usually defined as 1,000 or fewer words have long appreciated, compression packs a pithy punch.