Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review),
returns with 33 short, brilliant stories.
In Williams' stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is
writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden,
or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she
offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In
perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally wild wit,
Williams shows us how any moment of any day can open onto
disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.