Joseph Young writes a new brand of fiction. Collectively known as 'microfiction', each story is 50 words or less. However, don't let the terseness of his tales turn you away. Each micro story in this collection is complete in its entirety, and leaves an image with the reader, which is sure to leave you satisfied.
Young's collection, entitled Easter Rabbit, is divided into three distinct sections. The first takes its title from the book title, and clocks in at the most pages. The two other sections are titled, Deep Falls and God Not Otherwise. And hidden among these pages are treasures of tiny portraits, slices of life, of love, death, and breath. Cities and heartbreaks both rise from the ashes here, each story grasping at "starlight... out of reach" with "small and smaller tries." This is a collection, which stays, long after the last page been turned.
While I have favorites, "Cartogram" and "A Wish" (which we hear from the point of view of the pebble as it's dropped from the sailor's hands into the water) from Easter Rabbit, "Disclose/Agape" from Deep Falls, and "First Certainty, Ailanthus" (which speaks of nature and the stars both) from God Not Otherwise, it is impossible to say these four stories were any better than the others. But these stories do certainly have a sharp imagery, which resonates with me, pulling at my psyche, and sinking into sand.
There's something to be said here, for stories told so completely, but in so few words. But this is a collection certainly worth reading, and rereading, and passing on...
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