Holland’s Just in Case is a collection of flash fiction stories. For those who are unfamiliar with this writing style, flash fiction is snapshot writing. Most of the time, these stories are mere paragraphs long, often way shorter than major news stories, some shorter than minor news stories even! The stories in this collection run the gamut from creepy to quaint.
Really, there’s a definite talent to writing flash fiction, and writing it well. I’ve tried my hand at it. I suck. I’ll stick to my poetry, thanks! Holland definitely does it well. ‘Cold Case’ was a favourite, a play on the folktale of ‘Hansel & Gretel’ that startled an amused laugh out of me. ‘Drifting’ was another favourite. It was poetic; a tribute to nostalgia and growing old. Other faves include ‘Believe Me’, about unimaginable loss, ‘Butterflies’, about a surreal disappearance, and ‘When She Wakes Up’, about the nature of what is real and what is not.
As with poetry, flash fiction often offers the reader the chance to find meaning significant to them, or to really consider certain aspects of society, or psychology. A few of these stories I wish were just a chad bit longer. Most were perfect in length given the genre. What I do wish was that there were more that twenty-one of them! As was, I flew through this in about 45 mins.
*****Many thanks to the author and publisher for providing a copy in exchange for a fair and honest review. Reviewed for XPresso Tours.
It’s odd that there were so few when the nature of flash fiction is to be short!! I’m glad she shared the definition because i didn’t know that about flash fiction. i don’t relate to even poetry very well so I’m not the audience for flash fiction, but I’m so glad you liked so many of these Aislynn. Sounds like this is a good experiment if I want to try out some flash fiction!! ❤️
It’d be a nice intro to the style. I’ve written a few pieces. Very very few. It’s *hard*!! But great practice on learning to cut words. 🤣🤣