MICRO-STORIES by Pamela Gay

Pamela Gay is professor emerita at Binghamton University, State University of New York, where she taught creative writing after receiving a PhD at New York University. Her writing has been published in Iowa Review, Brevity, Midway Journal, Grey Sparrow, Vestal Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and many other literary magazines. She is also the recipient of a Saltonstall Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Homecoming that combined text, images, and artifacts, and two award-winning books: Developing Writers: A Dialogic Approach (Wadsworth) and I’m So Glad You’re Here (She Writes Press), a memoir that received Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews.

PRAISE:

Tender, poignant, playful at times, Gay’s micro-stories offer a compassionate glimpse into the unique varieties of human emotion: longing, loneliness, love. An incisive, heartwarming, even heartbreaking at times, collection, Pamela Gay is one of our very best flash fiction authors.

–Jaimee Wriston Colbert, author of How Not to Drown and SUNY Distinguished Professor of English & Creative Writing at Binghamton University

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In Pamela Gay‘s new fiction collection, Micro-Stories, we are confronted with a world made small by daunting, incalculable conflicts. The private lives of the characters in these stories are made smaller by their interactions with the outer world, by scarcity, by well-meaning relatives and friends, by battles with cancer. And we can’t help but cheer them on despite the vastness of their woes, as they attempt “way[s] of healing after confronting death” in all its guises, even when death is “some person with some story that is not [our] story.” We recognize our woes in theirs and our lives are made more abundant for it. Each piece in this collection is rich and of the earth, all while aspiring to spirit. Gay’s mastery of the short form is once again on full display and demands our full regard.

–Ralph Pennel, author of A World Les Prefect for Dying In and Editor-In-Chief at Midway Journal

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With a compassionate and unswerving eye, Gay explores instability and the various ways in which her characters cope. A pleasure to read.

–Roberta Allen, Author of The Princess of Herself and Fast Fiction