You Have Time for This

Customer Reviews

• Time Well Spent  Dec 20, 2007 (5 of 5 found this helpful)

  "You Have Time for This" is a vibrant and engaging collection of fifty-three short-short stories, demonstrating how stunning, varied, and satisfying stories 500 words or less can be. These are not fragments of imagined longer works, but eminently realized fictions rife with telling details, nuanced characters and resonant themes and situations.
  
  The flash fiction form has been expanding in popularity the last couple of decades and drawing the talents of many fine writers to the challenge of this compelling genre. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka have gathered together a diverse and outstanding selection of these literary gems in "You Have Time for This"--and you will.
  

• I was drawn in  Feb 13, 2008 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

  The experience of reading flash stories is qualitatively different from reading a novel. It's necessary to be a more active participant in the story telling - and that's what I find so captivating. Rather than sit back and be a passive observer of the author's fully-presented vision, we are only allowed a thin slice. A tantalizing peek through a partly open door. If the author is skillful, the peek is enough to let you tease out the story. If you have the least voyeuristic tendency, you should read this book. It's filled with sly glimpses into the lives of others - and don't be fooled by their briefness. You'll be mulling over the characters long after the story is finished.
  
  You do have time for this. In fact it's better if you don't have a lot of time. The pleasure is extended and the stories are there for you whenever you have a minute to read.

• Very compelling short-short stories  Feb 19, 2008 

  A writer friend of mine recommended "You Have Time For This", explaining
  that it was an anthology or short-short fiction. I was very dubious.
  Well, I bought it anyway, and found, to my complete surprise, a series of stories that are quite compelling. This was, for me, an entirely new and exciting literary experience.
  The stories, by dint of their brevity, make for very compelling pieces. One is, in a way,mesmerized by what is often a surrealist effect created by the
  shortening of time and space.I read it from cover to cover, without once taking a break--which is unusual for me.

• You Have Time for This  Apr 3, 2008 

  A marvelous collection of unique flash fictions that will have you enchanted from the first to the last. You can and should make time to read this gem. Be prepared for an extraoridinary trip through the minds of some top notch writers.

• My First Experience with Flash Fiction   Apr 16, 2008 

  Reading You Have Time for This was really exciting! The stories in this book were the first pieces of flash fiction that I had read. I am now an avid fan of the genre! The organization of this book was well paced, and as interesting as each of the stories individually.