REVIEWED BY A.E. WEISGERBER

RIFT: Stories by Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan

RIFT: Stories by Kathy Fish + Robert Vaughan  | Edited by Bud Smith | Unknown Press, 2015 | ISBN: 978-1518879708 | 211 pages

RIFT is a collection that will earn repeated readings from many readers, flash fiction aficionados or not. It is rich in types and forms of flash, from triptychs and prose-poems to episodic and hybrid works, with a special devotion to scenes under 500 words.

Short as these stories are, however, they pack the wallop of the best poetry, and invite that level of reflection. The book can be approached from many pleasant angles. Stories can be read singly, in pairs, by section, or one might unbraid the counterpoint presentation by first reading one author, then going back to read the other.

The collection is the product of an online writing collaboration that editor Bud Smith…