Jellyfish

<p>Deep dives into the human character underlie Mark McCaig's</p><p>fast-read glimpses of what at first blush would seem momentary</p><p>absurdities. There's Pinkii who became deeply obsessed with her little</p><p>toes and the fifth phalanges of all creatures. The stamp collector deeply</p><p>troubled by the busyness of the USPS modern-day art preferring the</p><p>stately look that adorned envelopes decades in the past. The facial</p><p>recognition practitioner who dispensed immediate names among</p><p>them Jellyfish to a cousin and Weasel a lawyer on her elevator.</p><p>McCaig a pioneering educator presents appealing stories you can</p><p>knock out any time perhaps when you're waiting for somebody</p><p>or something. On hold with your doctor? His rapid-read takes</p><p>steeped in technology at times relate uncomfortable truths.</p><p>In Upgrade a 200-word rapier treatment of the cell-phone</p><p>era he contrasts the gleeful girl with her new prize at a cell</p><p>phone store with the Asian girl disassembling trade-ins at a</p><p>poisonous e-waste dump under the leering eyes of her oppressor.</p><p>In the best tradition of flash fiction Jellyfish illuminates pains excesses</p><p>and charming realities in the human condition-all in a flash.</p>