Mark Budman & Tom Hazuka, Editors

Love, death, fantasy, and foreign lands, told with brevity and style by the best writers in the short-short fiction genre. You Have Time for This satiates your craving for fine literature without making a dent in your schedule.

This collection takes the modern reader on fifty-three literary rides, each one only five hundred words or less. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka, two of the top names in the genre, have compiled an anthology of mini-worlds are as diverse as the authors who created them.

Contributing writers include Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candy-freak; Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt; Robert Boswell, author of five novels including Century’s Son; Alex Irvine, author of A Scattering of Jades; L. E. Leone who writes a weekly humorous column about food and life for the San Francisco Bay Guardian; Justine Musk, author of dark-fantasy novels including Blood Angel; Susan O’Neill, writer of nonfiction and fiction with a book of short stories Don’t Mean Nothing; Short Stories of Vietnam; Katharine Weber author of several novels, her most recent is Triangle.

From Buddha to beer, sex to headless angels, there’s a story here for everyone. In You Have Time for This you will find:

• Flash fiction from forty-four authors
• Works from across the globe
• Highly regarded authors from all types of genres
• Fresh work from emerging writers
• Fifty-three stand alone pieces that tie the world together

Enjoy. You have time for this.

For more information: ooligan.youhavetime@pdx.edu

ISBN: 978-1-932010-17-6
135 pages
5″ x 7½”, softcover
$11.95

About the Editors

Mark Budman

Budman co–edits Vestal Review, a short–short fiction magazine, and has been published widely. His first novel is coming out in May 2008. Budman has taught extensively on the subject of flash fiction at colleges and universities on the East Coast.

• Mark’s Website
• Mark’s Blog

About the Editors

Tom Hazuka

Hazuka co–edited the first major short–short fiction anthology, Flash Fiction, in 1992, as well as authoring three novels, one work of nonfiction, and more than thirty stories. He teachers English at Central Connecticut State University.

Praise

A really good flash fiction is like a story overheard at a bar—personal, funny, dangerous, and sometimes hard to believe. You Have Time For This distills those qualities and many others into quick tall tales by writers who are as talented as they are magical.
— Kevin Sampsell, author of Beautiful Blemish and publisher of Future Tense Publishing

These contenders for the title of ‘world’s best short-short stories’ are by some of the best micro and flash writers I know of…suspense, revelation, a twist of metaphor, or plot, or character, and sometimes all, before you can turn the page? It’s like levitation—I’m skeptical, but seeing is believing.
— Robert Shapard, co-editor of New Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward