{"product_id":"9781481781305","title":"Richard Mallinson's Fast Fiction: Volume Two","description":"At only a page each in length, Richard Mallinson’s elegantly structured short stories are a pithy fast fiction for a modern multimedia age. A rapid succession of carefully worked observations, the stories read like a dynamic anthology of life’s collisions and interactions, its projected plans and unexpected rotations. There is a great joy in the subverted (the interviewer becomes the interviewee; the private detective becomes the conspirator) as well as an interest in the open-ended. Possibility abounds, for these are always tales of the present; the past is unclear and the future unwritten.   Adhering to the strict one-page format, the writing is marvelously precise: it is highly disciplined, but infinitely rich, conjuring the most unique and sharply observed characters with remarkably few words. If indeed “we read fiction . . . in order to meet individuals” as the character Tolson declares in Mallinson’s “Tolson’s Creed,” then in this anthology we are introduced to a plethora of distinct personalities, rendered all the more compelling by their relentless unpredictability.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144522678512,"sku":"9781481781305","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781481781305_p0.jpg?v=1763624293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781481781305","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}