Robert Scotellaro

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"Reading these two major talents of flash is akin to watching trapeze artists swoop and dive, yet retrieve their balance when you least expect it. Daring, witty and often surreal they carry the work into places they make clearly their own. Brilliant " -Frankie McMillan, author of My Mother and the Hungarians and The Father of Octopus Wrestling"What happens when two flash fiction masters team up in alternating sections of six-sentence stories to prove that limits of form can expand imagination? A duel, a duet, a dance. Sheer magic " -Jane Ciabattari, (Literary Hub columnist, contributor, BBC Culture)"These six-sentence fictions in Breath and Shadow are a fresh mix of narratives that alternately startle, tickle, and sting. There's gold in this stream of tiny stories, enough solid value to keep one pondering their richness while marveling at the sparkle." -Bob Thurber, author of Paperboy and Nothing But Trouble"Scotellaro and Pokrass are the Penn and Teller of flash fiction, con- juring characters and situations and feelings for our amazement and amusement. Pure wizardry " -Lou Beach, author of 420 Characters and Cut It Out

Robert Scotellaro is the author of 7 flash fiction collections including most recently: Ways to Read the World (Scantic Books, 2022) and God in a Can (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), as well as 5 collections of poetry, and several books for children. He has, along with James Thomas, co-edited New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, published by W. W. Norton & Co. His work has appeared widely, nationally and internationally, and is included in the W. W. Norton anthologies, Flash Fiction International (2015) and Flash Fiction America (2023), and in 4 Best Small Fictions and 2 Best Microfiction award anthologies. He is the winner of Zone 3's Rainmaker Prize in Poetry and the Blue Light Book Award for his fiction. Robert is one of the founding donors to The Ransom Flash Fiction Collection at the University of Texas, Austin. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, artist and art historian, Diana Scott.

God in a Can is a collection of flash and micro fictions that looks at life through a surreal, and often humorous lens, at various societal behaviors, perceptions at a slant, and unusual scenarios. Paradoxically, the underpinnings, at the core, can be very real in the way the stories explore how we live, struggle to live, and hope to.

In What are the Chances? Robert Scotellaro once again secures his place as a solid master of micro-fiction . . . . Each story told with the ever-present undertone of Scotellaro wisdom and charm. Each story perfectly complete while bursting out of its container to lock imaginations with the reader. -Francine Witte