Download or read book NANO Fiction Volume 5 Number 2 written by Thisbe Nissen and published by NANO Fiction. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NANO Fiction (print ISSN 1935-844X; digital ISSN 2160-939X) is non-profit literary journal that publishes flash fiction—a form of short story also known as micro fiction, micro narrative, micro-story, microrrelatos, postcard fiction, the short short, the short short story, kürzestgeschichten, and sudden fiction—of 300 words or fewer. Featuring twenty to thirty authors in each issue, NANO Fiction has roots that draw from Aesop’s Fables and Zen Koans. Notable practitioners of this prose form include Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Naguib Mahfouz, and Linor Goralik, among others. This issue of NANO Fiction features works by: James Tadd Adcox, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Elissa Cahn, Jesse Cheng, Katie Cortese, Ashley Farmer, Jaydn DeWald, Genevieve Hudson, James Iredell, Takeki Ishihara, Erin Jewell, Gina Keicher, Peter Kispert, Harry Leeds, Thomas Patrick Levy, Jorge Ricardo Lopez-McKnight, Sean Lovelace, Matthew Mahaney, Gary L. McDowell, Kelly Miller, Gene Morgan, Thisbe Nissen, Anthony Opal, Michael C. Rodriguez, Matt Rowan, Marina Rubin, Angela Rydell, Kevin Sampsell, Didi Schiller, Mark Sutz, Brendan Todt, Elizabeth Wade, and Elizabeth Wyatt.