"This collection of micro-stories teems with energy and talent. To pick this up and read it is to feel the pulse of our world: the heartbreak, the strangeness, the vast variety of voices and desires, the coming of the future. This is exactly what I want to read."

- Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8

"I look forward to each year's Best Microfiction because it promises a view of life through a miniature, fractured lens. I'm enlivened by the odd shapes of these stories and the odd stories those shapes invite in, as if shopping in a Borgesian flea market. I'm reminded how the small, the quiet, tend to have the most interesting things to say."

- Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month

"Reading these tiny, bright micro-fictions, I can't help thinking of the scattered, chaotic molecules of coal, buried deep in black earth, compressed into diamonds, an effortless-seeming mine craft, like there's nothing to it at all. Impossible not to marvel at these micro-fictions, such tiny bright suns as these."

- Lex Williford, author of Superman on the Roof

"A terrific collection of ultra-short stories--complex, thrilling, sometimes just crazy-nutball, in the best possible way! Huzzah!"

- Frederick Barthelme

These are small, arresting stories that cut right to the heart of the matter, demonstrating that a story well told, no matter how small, expands beyond the space it inhabits.

- Robert Scotellaro, Co-Editor, "New Micro" (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018)