Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories, by Grant Faulkner
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Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories, by Grant Faulkner
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In Fissures, a collection of one hundred 100-word stories, Grant Faulkner uses the hard borders of the 100-word story form to evocatively capture the drama of the lacunae we live in, whether it's the gulf between a loved one, the natural world, or God."I've always thought life is more about what is unsaid than what is said," he says. "We live in odd gaps of silence, irremediable interstices that sometimes last forever. A lingering glance averted. The lover who slams the door and runs away. Unsent letters."Faulkner, the executive director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of the lit mag 100 Word Story, has focused on longer narrative forms for most of his writing career. He wondered, however, if instead of building an entire world with text--to sew connections, to explain--he did the opposite."What if instead of relying on the words of a story, I relied on the spectral spaces around those words? What if I privileged excision over any notion of comprehensiveness, and formed narratives around caesuras and crevices?""Fissures is disjunction at its most disruptive," says Pamela Painter, author of Wouldn't You Like to Know. "Faulkner's stories are 'spectral spaces' captured with 'hard borders' and his dangerous eye for truth."Two stories in Fissures, "The Toad" and "Way Station", were chosen for Best Small Fictions 2016, judged by Stuart Dybeck.
Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories, by Grant Faulkner- Amazon Sales Rank: #1324190 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .29" w x 5.24" l, .32 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 122 pages
Review "In Grant Faulkner's collection of very short fiction, Fissures, Faulkner manages to elevate his language, presenting each word here with the rhetorical weight of a novel and with a poetic aptitude that is anything but self-indulgent. Faulkner has, instead, carefully crafted these stories, and each word comes at the reader as high currency." - Atticus Review"Every detail, in this terse form, seems telling, radiating a mysterious significance. Much like other restricted forms--haiku came to mind more than once, in reading this book--syntax is folded in upon itself, words standing alone like miniature paintings." - decomP"Using such poetic techniques as compression, ambiguity, and vivid imagery ('I was the kid with mangy ears and biscuits sopped in syrup'), the author tells large stories within tiny spaces: in fact, when writing Fissures he focused on the spaces themselves, those 'odd gaps of silence' that can translate into distances and disconnections between loved ones." - KYSO Flash"These ephemeral works are meditative like well-crafted haiku. And much like a well-crafted haiku, they are not a simple formal exercise. We sense the expanse between the characters." - Your Impossible Voice"The stories read as breaths, as whispers, as reflections in glass." - Puerto del Sol
From the Author I've always thought life is more about what is unsaid than what is said. We live in odd gaps of silence, irremediable interstices that sometimes last forever. A lingering glance averted. The lover who slams the door and runs away. Unsent letters. We all carry so many strange little moments within us. Memory shuffles through random snapshots. Sometimes they seem insignificant, yet they stay with us for some reason, weaving the fabrics of our beings. In the end, we don't seize the day so much as it seizes us. The idea of capturing such small but telling moments of life is what drew me to 100-word stories (or "drabbles" as they're sometimes referred to). I'd previously written novels and longer short stories, forms that demanded an accumulation of words--to sew connections, to explain, to build an entire world with text. I wondered, what if I did the opposite? What if instead of relying on the words of a story, I relied on the spectral spaces around those words? What if I privileged excision over any notion of comprehensiveness, and formed narratives around caesuras and crevices? We live as foragers in many ways, after all, sniffing at hints, interpreting the tones of a person's voice, scrutinizing expressions, and then trying to put it all together into a collage of what we like to call truth. Whether it's the gulf between a loved one, the natural world, or God, we exist in lacunae. I wanted to write with an aesthetic that captured these "fissures," as I began to think about them. Perhaps I could have accomplished such an aesthetic of writing in a longer form, but the hard borders of a 100-word story put a necessary pressure on each word, each sentence. In my initial forays into 100-word stories, my stories veered toward 150 words or more. I didn't see ways to cut or compress. I didn't see ways to make the nuances and gestures of language invite the reader in to create the story. But writing within the fixed lens of 100 words required me to discipline myself stringently. I had to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert's mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn't. As result, I discovered those mysterious, telling gaps that words tend to cover up. We all have a literal blind spot in our eyes, where the optic nerve connects to the retina and there are no light-detecting cells. None of us will ever know the whole story, in other words. We can only collect a bag full of shards and try to piece them together. This collection is my bag full of shards.
From the Back Cover "Fissures is disjunction at its most disruptive--Faulkner's stories are 'spectral spaces' captured with 'hard borders' and his dangerous eye for truth." --Pamela Painter, author of Wouldn't You Like to Know "Grant Faulkner's stories are poetic and creepy and funny and touching and you're going to have a swell time. I wish I had written some of them." --Lou Beach, author of 420 Characters "Grant Faulkner is the impresario of 100-word stories. The 100 tantalizing fictions in shock and please--a precious pile of sparkling surprises." --Jane Ciabattari, author of Stealing the Fire and California Stories "Grant Faulkner's sharply observed, darkly funny, heart-breaking bursts of highly compressed prose offers a startling view of what reality might look like through a funhouse microscope. Fissures pushes the boundaries of flash prose, and thank goodness for that. Sometimes less is so much more." --Dinty W. Moore, author of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A rich and subtly connected collection of stories By C. Lynn. Jacobs Anytime you begin to read a story you enter into a contract with the author. The author promises something that creates meaning, an understanding between you and him or her. You promise to give him or her a chance to make the connections that will create story. The 100 Word Story is a genre that insists on active participation by the reader, and in return it promises vivid active language, each word carefully chosen to enable vivid imagining on your part. You must pay careful attention and even reread each story as it builds itself in your mind. Each time you read it, you find a different nuance of meaning that perhaps you missed the first time. It could be that you construe the meaning in a different way each time you read it. This is not a genre that permits passive or sleepy reading. It is over too quickly, like a one horse town that flies by if you blink at the wrong moment. It is rich and provocative and multi-layered. Grant Faulkner is a master of this genre. "Fissures" is a rich and addictive collection of stories that are subtly linked while at the same time each stands alone. Highly recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Joy of Living Dangerously By james thomas Like an earthquake addict living on a fault line, I find myself going back to Fissures again and again. This book is seismic. Here, with these hundred aftershocks of tight little stories, a tectonic plate of solid fiction is exposed--an accumulation of characters bound together and surfacing in their conflicted situations. Meet Celeste and Gerard, popping up, getting it on, dropping out, and splitting up. Ending it all, but differently each time. Or encounter the inset saga of Alexander the filmmaker, trying but failing to get his life right in eight takes. There is danger in these pages, to be sure, but it is peril experienced through a series of sharp revelations, each positively embracing human nature on the fearless edge. I keep returning to these people and their lives, trying to learn more, reaching into the crevices, taking their risks and my chances--and enjoying the ride. Again and again. A hundred times.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Wisdom, humor, life in 100 words By Dedicated reader Mark It’s Faulkner’s sentences that make the stories and it’s his inventive metaphors, similes and his succinct philosophical observations that make the sentences. This imaginative flash fiction collection will have you rereading, pondering and admiring these delicately crafted vignettes or “strange moments,” as he calls them in the introduction.
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