Description |
xi, 275 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Circuit city / J. Robert Lennon -- Any other / Jac Jemc -- nobody checks their voicemails anymore not even detectives / Sasha Fletcher -- Give me strength / Karen Heuler -- The luser / Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman -- Hygge / Dorthe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstra -- Exit interview / Christian Hayden -- Ratface / Paul La Farge -- Mary when you follow her / Carmen Maria Machado -- Ghost light / Elizabeth Hand -- Highway one / Benjamin Whitmer -- Airport paperback / Adam Hirsch -- A bead to string / Michael Harris Cohen -- The fifth of July / Helen Phillips -- Withold the dawn / Richie Narvaez -- Good hair / Marta Balcewicz -- Dogface / Sarah Wang -- See agent / Anonymous -- These are funny, broken days / Amber Sparks -- Loophole / Adam Sternbergh -- Knife fight / Julie Elliott -- The meme farm / Adam McCulloch -- The rhetorician / Adrian van Young -- No exit / Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Allison Markin Powell -- The hall at the end of the hall / Ryan Bloom -- Friends / Laura van den Berg -- Minor witchcraft / Chiara Barzini -- Three scores / Nick Mamatas -- The odds / Amelia Gray -- Nobody's gonna sleep here, honey / Danielle Evans -- The wrong one / Erica Wright -- The trashman cometh / J. W. McCormack -- Actual urchin / Henry Hoke -- The law of expansion / Brian Evenson -- Night train / Fabien Clouette & Quentin Leclerc, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman -- What we know / Misha Rai -- Final rescue / Kenneth Nichols -- [Purple pills] / Rion Amilcar Scott -- We are suicide / Benjamin Percy -- Alibi / Charles Yu. |
Summary |
Forty very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of todays most imaginative and thrilling writers. Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard-boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries, with diminutive double crosses, miniature murders, and crimes both real and imagined, Tiny Crimes rounds up all the usual suspects, and some unusual suspects, too. Tiny Crimes scours the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved. |
Subject |
Murder -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Short stories.
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Genre |
Mystery fiction.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Added Author |
Michel, Lincoln, editor.
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Nieto, Nadxieli, editor.
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Lennon, J. Robert, 1970-
Circuit city.
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Jemc, Jac, 1983-
Any other.
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Fletcher, Sasha, 1985-
Nobody checks their voicemails anymore not even detectives.
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Heuler, Karen.
Give me strength.
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Herrera, Yuri, 1970-
Lúser.
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Nors, Dorthe, 1970-
Hygge.
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Hayden, Christian.
Exit interview.
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LaFarge, Paul.
Ratface.
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Machado, Carmen Maria.
Mary when you follow her.
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Hand, Elizabeth.
Ghost light.
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ISBN |
9781936787876 (pbk.) |
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1936787873 (pbk.) |
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