Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

Nancy Stohlman has been a fixture in the local literary scene for years – and she’s got a long history with one of the shortest forms. Still, flash fiction is in many ways just coming into its own, so ...

In their second collection of ""flash fiction"" stories-aka ""short shorts""-Thomas and Shapard have pulled together almost 80 works that are consistently swift and powerful, distilling the ...