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Small Worlds: Flash Fiction & Microfiction

Expansive Stories On Small Canvases

In Small Worlds, Gail Vida Hamburg delivers a collection of flash fiction and microfiction

that captures the messy, often absurd architecture of human lives-compressed

into moments of sharp beauty, sly humor, and unsettling truth.



From slow dances that never end, to customer service calls that turn into romances,

to rebellious seniors plotting a great escape, these stories chronicle the intimate and the epic in miniature.

Here, love is both a balm and a weapon. Loneliness births imaginary friends.

Deviants justify cruelty with high-minded philosophy.

And in the end, everyone is seeking-connection, redemption, or simply a way out.



With razor-sharp wit and unsparing insight, Small Worlds invites readers

to peer into the condensed universes we each inhabit-worlds where longing, compulsion, invention,

and self-rationale collide.



What's the sum of a life? A moment. A sentence. A breath.



This collection of flash fiction and microfiction is a meditation

on the art of compression and the expansive truths that reside in the smallest spaces.

Stories as Mughal Miniature Art and Rice Grain Paintings

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Published Jul 27, 2025

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