Building on the enormously successful World's Shortest Stories, here's an all-new collection of super-short fiction-each story a mere 55 words long! With nearly 150 contributors, including Charles Schulz and Fannie Flagg, these stories offer love, betrayal, passion, and death-in less time than it takes to count the words in this blurb!
John M. Daniel was born in 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in Farmers Branch, Texas. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University (1967-68) and a Writer in Residence at Wilbur Hot Springs (1980-82). He has taught fiction writing at UCLA Extension and Santa Barbara Adult Education and was on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference for nearly twenty years. He has also taught classes and led writing workshops for the Klamath Falls Writer's Conference, the Golden Triangle Writers' Conference, the Dallas/Fort Worth Writers' Workshop, the Pima Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere.
Daniel's stories and articles have appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His published books include Play Melancholy Baby, Perseverance Press, 1986; The Woman by the Bridge, Dolphin-Moon Press, 1991; One for the Books: Confessions of a Small Press Publisher, Fithian Press, 1997; Structure, Style and Truth--Elements of the Short Story, Fithian Press, 1998; Generous Helpings--Six Stories of California, Calamity, and Love, Shoreline Press, 2001; The Ballad of Toby and Lark, Fithian Press 2009; and the Guy Mallon mystery series published by Poisoned Pen Press, including The Poet's Funeral (2005) and Vanity Fire (2006).
Available on Kindle, three novels: Geronimo's Skull, Elephant Lake, and Swimming in the Deep End.
Forthcoming in fall 2011: Behind the Redwood Door, a Guy Mallon Mystery to be published by Oak Tree Press
John M. Daniel has worked as a bookseller, a free-lance writer, an editor, an entertainer, a model, an innkeeper, and a teacher. He is now a small-press literary book publisher and free-lance editor in McKinleyville, California, where he also teaches creative writing.
