{"product_id":"just-outside-the-tunnel-of-love-9781421835273","title":"Just Outside the Tunnel of Love","description":"Francine Witte's flash fiction has been published in numerous journals and the anthologies \u003cem\u003eFlash Fiction Funny\u003c\/em\u003e (Blue Light Press, ) \u003cem\u003eNew Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (W.W. Norton, ) and \u003cem\u003eFlash Fiction America \u003c\/em\u003e(W.W. Norton.) as well as \u003cem\u003eBest Microfiction \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBest Small Fictions.\u003c\/em\u003eShe is the author of three flash fiction chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eCold June, \u003c\/em\u003e (Ropewalk Press) winner of the 2010 Thomas Wilhelmus Award, \u003cem\u003eThe Wind Twirls Everything (\u003c\/em\u003eMusclehead Press, ) and \u003cem\u003eThe Cake, The Smoke, The Moon, \u003c\/em\u003e(ELJ Editions.) Her novella-in-flash \u003cem\u003eThe Way of The Wind\u003c\/em\u003e (Ad Hoc Press, ) was cited as a highly recommended selection in the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her poetry chapbooks include two first-prize winners, \u003cem\u003eFirst Rain\u003c\/em\u003e (Pecan Grove Press, ) and \u003cem\u003eNot All Fires Burn the Same\u003c\/em\u003e (Slipstream Press.) She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eCafé Crazy, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Theory of Flesh, \u003c\/em\u003e (both from Kelsay Press.) She is editor of \u003cem\u003eFlash Boulevard\u003c\/em\u003e, published by George Wallace. She is the flash fiction editor of \u003cem\u003eSouth Florida Poetry Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e She is a former high school teacher. She lives in Manhattan, NYC with her husband, Mark Larsen. ENDORSEMENTS\"The stories in Francine Witte's \u003cem\u003eJust Outside the Tunnel of Love\u003c\/em\u003e deftly skirt the boring center of love and instead poke and prod at the before and after of what it means to fall into and out of ... everything. She takes on the smash and smoosh and broken eggs of love. The language in this collection is exquisite and playful and mournful and sexy. Witte has mastered the short form. Pull up a chair.\"- Sherrie Flick, author of \u003cem\u003eThank Your Lucky Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\"There are a lot of doorways, portals, tunnels, windows, a lot of rides, vehicles, a lot of moves, movement, and moving moves to be found in these startled and startling concentrated compressed compositions of Francine Witte's.\"\"\u003cem\u003eJust Outside the Tunnel of Love\u003c\/em\u003e's microcosms record macrocosmic depth and organic reach. Like the stunning snapshots from the Webb telescope these precise and pristine pixels, these immediate and intimate images pack and unpack billions and billions of years of light, calories of heat, stretches of space, and the ultimatums of time. All I have to say is: Hang on! Let go!\"- Michael Martone, author of \u003cem\u003ePlain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana\u003c\/em\u003e \"A woman falls in love with a potato, another woman eats a husband made of ice cream, a cat espouses a theory about why its mistress's man left her. These brief tales of scorned lovers and shrewd daughters of swindler fathers are reminiscent of the nursery rhymes my grandmother read to me when I was a girl, the way Francine Witte's pixyish prose skips and twirls, laughs then bares its teeth. With stunning dexterity and whimsy, Witte whips up so much delight and menace. \u003cem\u003eJust Outside the Tunnel of Love\u003c\/em\u003e is an enchanting story collection by a master artisan of flash fiction.\"- Michelle Ross, author of \u003cem\u003eThey Kept Running\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11541357\"\u003eFrancine Witte\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue Light Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421835273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421835274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023020\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Love \u0026amp; Erotica\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Light Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44564338311405,"sku":"9781421835273","price":21.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_9c4eeea5-1f62-44ce-a464-7b9b53eb32c9.jpg?v=1701850822","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/just-outside-the-tunnel-of-love-9781421835273","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}