The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down

Serious and witty, mystical and dark, these short stories by Meg Pokrass are small windows into another world, a world that is almost this world. But not quite. In her masterful pieces, Pokrass leads her readers on, page by page, enticing them with her beautiful and dream-like language. Bopping and slamming through these little stories like some genius world tour of the human heart, Pokrass gets a lot done in the shortest spaces imaginable. This collection of tiny, intimate truffles is as powerful as soul-chocolate infused with caffeine. Each of these 50 stories contains bite-sized glimpses into the lives of everyday people, leaving the reader with the long and lasting effects of a full-length novel. Each chapter delves into relevant life events that require further contemplation. Her language is supercharged and witty, with humor and sadness in approximately equal amounts, revealing the dark truth and reality of the world.

Meg Pokrass is a leading American writer of the flash fiction form. She is the author of four previous flash fiction collections: Bird Envy(Harvard Book Store, 2014); Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011); Cellulose Pajamas(Blue Light Press, 2015); and My Very End of the Universe, Five Mini-Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form(Rose Metal Press, 2014). Her stories have appeared in more than two hundred literary magazines, includingMcSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus,storySouth , and numerous anthologies, including the forthcoming Flash Fiction International(W.W. Norton, 2015).