From Alton to Waverly the fields all around looked absurdly abundant, rich black soil much of the world would die for, perfectly manicured, all that ground now seeded and embarrassingly bare naked, Dutch-Cleanser clean, gorgeous black dirt, all in place, things ready to grow.
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.