The Exquisite Rush: 36-Minute Stories

by Curators of Mini Sledgehammer (Editor)

Overview

In a special thrift store where shoppers can buy past experiences, two friends discover that not all memories can be shared.

A married couple decides to meet at the site of a past tragic event to make one final decision.

To make it to the overseas wedding planned by his fiancé, a man with a terror of flying enlists a life coach, a couples counselor, a hypnotist, and even a flight simulator.

Whether you like thrillers or romance, there's a story for you in this anthology. Sci-fi, absurdist drama, voodoo noir--they're in here. You probably hold every genre in your hands.

We took the winning short stories from the first nine years of Portland's Mini Sledgehammer 36-Minute Writing Contest and selected the best 36 of them.

What's Mini Sledgehammer, you ask? It's a quirky writing contest that incorporates four writing prompts and a 36-minute time limit. All writers are welcome, from published professionals to newborn novelists, and when the time is up, they read their stories and the judges select a winner--all right there on the spot. There's no time to hesitate, second-guess, or hold back.

Exquisite pressure is what these writers experience, and as the stories in this anthology demonstrate, pressure makes diamonds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780981942247
Publisher:	Indigo Editing, LLC
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Pages:	234
Sales rank:	308,574
Product dimensions:	4.37(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.49(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Ali J. Shaw

The Stories

Not on the Syllabus, Jenn Crowell, July 2010

Never in Public, Fufkin Vollmayer, December 2010

What Money Can’t Buy, by Barry Netzley, February 2011

Angels to Nirvana, Blythe Ayne, March 2011

The Bicycle, Pamela Russell Bejerano, May 2011

Reality, Courtney Sherwood, August 2011

Cans, Elissa Nelson, November 2011

Eggnog Enchantment, Pat Jewett, December 2011

Jesus Comes Around, Lisa Galloway, January 2012

Dog Arms, Jack Mahaffy, February 2012

Beast of Burden, Jarrod Schuster, February 2012

Women’s Health: Neither Here Nor There, Kathleen Valle, March 2012

The Proposal, Miriam Lambert, April 2012

The Quiet Man of Wholesome, Jennifer A. Gritt, April 2012

The Lake, Elisabeth Flaum, June 2012

Underworld, Elisabeth Flaum, August 2012

Dream Catcher, Melinda McCamant, August 2012

January, Kerrie Farris, January 2013

Cost/Benefit, Daniel Granias, February 2013

Forgetting, Pamela Russell Bejerano, April 2013

Bottling, Peter D’Auria, July 2013

Purple Pillows, Daniel Granias, December 2013

The Difference between Snow, J.B. Kish, January 2014

What Comes Next?, J.B. Kish, June 2014

Milk Starring Sean Penn, Jeremy Da Rosa, January 2015

Burnt Ice Cream, Elizabeth Grace Martin, May 2015

Whiskey Ginger, J. Turner Masland, June 2015

The Giving, Sarah Farnham, December 2015

Parallels, Summer Olsson, January 2016

Stand In, Summer Olsson, March 2016

Extinction, Laurel Rogers, April 2016

The Disappearance of Bobby Gond, Donald Carson, May 2016

Only the Lonely, Donald Carson, July 2016

Baltic Avenue, Melinda McCamant, August 2016

Sanctuary, J. Turner Masland, October 2016

Terminal Encounters, Daniel Granias, November 2016

Author Bios

Acknowledgments

Event Information