{"product_id":"2940045441704","title":"Flashing It: A Tiny Collection of Tiny Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unusual audition that changes the course of Hollywood movie-making. An unusual cookbook. Boltzmann brains! And more in this brief collection of flash fiction, in which not everyone has bothered to put on a pair of briefs. (And some can't, because they have no bodies.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003eThis happened back when Hollywood was brand new--just a bunch of Jewish men congregatin' on a patch of desert to make pictures. They hadn't even figured out yet what a movie star oughta be. They were takin' all comers: pretty, plain, young, old, fat, thin, you name it. So one day the studio door opens and in walks this broad with her big hips wobbling. Mediterranean-looking she was, her thick black hair streaked with grey. They asked her name and she said \"Baubo.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And your last name?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Just Baubo.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was a couple of eons old if she was a day. But they didn't know that, and they didn't know she was a goddess neither. If they'd known either o' them things, they might o' been warier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vivian Unger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172756209904,"sku":"2940045441704","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045441704_p0.jpg?v=1763974456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045441704","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}