Small Worlds

<p><strong> Expansive Stories On Small Canvases</strong></p><p></p><p>In Small Worlds Gail Vida Hamburg delivers a collection of flash fiction and microfiction </p><p>that captures the messy often absurd architecture of human lives-compressed </p><p>into moments of sharp beauty sly humor and unsettling truth.

</p><p></p><p>From slow dances that never end to customer service calls that turn into romances </p><p>to rebellious seniors plotting a great escape these stories chronicle the intimate and the epic in miniature. </p><p>Here love is both a balm and a weapon. Loneliness births imaginary friends. </p><p>Deviants justify cruelty with high-minded philosophy. </p><p>And in the end everyone is seeking-connection redemption or simply a way out.

</p><p></p><p>With razor-sharp wit and unsparing insight Small Worlds invites readers</p><p> to peer into the condensed universes we each inhabit-worlds where longing compulsion invention </p><p>and self-rationale collide.

</p><p></p><p>What's the sum of a life? A moment. A sentence. A breath.

</p><p>This collection of flash fiction and microfiction is a meditation </p><p>on the art of compression and the expansive truths that reside in the smallest spaces.</p><p></p><p><strong>Stories as Mughal Miniature Art and Rice Grain Paintings</strong></p><p></p>