Matt Potter's writing possesses a delicate snark, an incisive wit that
lifts even the commonplace into unique memorability. The characters have
the makings of great fictional people: they're singular and quirky, but
at the same time possessed of an indisputable sense of reality. These
people exist, they live and breathe, and we the readers, recognize in
them our friends, our family. And ourselves. Guilie Castillo Oriard,
author of 'The Miracle of Small Things' The small fictions in 'Based on
True Stories' will not lull you - they will piss you off or, at the
least, move you to indignation or tears or laughter. Maybe all three.
These gems provoke, like the tip of a chef's knife pricking skin, and
just as the words get uncomfortable, the story delivers the bit of
redemption that reveals the humanity of his characters - and of us all.
These stories are real, raw, and honest. The reading doesn't get much
better than that. Linda Simoni-Wastila, Senior Fiction Editor at 'JMWW'