Days Are Beautiful: 100 flash fiction stories

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When regular fiction takes too long, try a 100-word story.

Written during the dark and weird lockdown of the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, these amuse-bouche stories come together to form a book that’s easy to read, often funny, and sometimes unsettling.

Meet Diane, who can’t decide which way to drive her car. And there’s Dr. JJ, offering his best “quarantine posture tips,” plus Jimmy, a snail needing a new ride. These tantalizing story snacks, plus 97 more, provide unique and poignant observations about nature and humankind.

Read it quickly, or savor the stories one each day, as they were written. This book is the epitome of versatility!

Life comes at you fast. Pick up Days Are Beautiful, the first microfiction collection by Andrea C. Neil and slow things down. Just for a minute or two.

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Nice Things from Readers!
  • Focused flash fiction: “Flash fiction is a unique form – needing to be super-tight and focused in order to work. In Days Are Beautiful, author Andrea C. Neil really pulls this off, showing herself to be very skilled in what is a very demanding form of art. The stories in Days Are Beautiful are clever, fun, sometimes light-hearted and often weighty with thoughts on how we inhabit our daily lives. Much of what happens in the everyday subject matter is very relatable, tackling the little things in life (and sometimes the big) that we all find ourselves facing, especially in light of a pandemic. I definitely recommend this book, and I’m looking forward to the next one!” — Goodreads Review
  • Read it with a great cup of coffee: “This is a very enjoyable and well written book…it makes you feel less alone and connected to someone else living in an unsettled time in our lives.” — Goodreads Review
  • Good short short stories: “I think one of these days we will be through this pandemic and I think books like this will remind us of what it is like to live through it. I give the book five stars and recommend it highly.” — Goodreads Review
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