Current Disasters - Paperback

by Jen McConnell (Author), Michele McDannold (Editor), Ned McConnell (Artist)

CURRENT DISASTERS consists of 22 flash and short stories. The characters and predicaments in CURRENT DISASTERS offer insight into the ways we attempt to connect with others and the larger world around us. The stories explore false starts and unresolved endings, and the agonizing moments in between.

Jen McConnell has published prose and poetry in more than forty literary magazines and her work has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Recent short stories and flash fiction can be found in The Good Life Review, Burningword, Does it Have Pockets?, Bridge Eight and more. Her first story collection, Welcome, Anybody, was published by Press 53. She holds an MFA from Goddard College. A California native, she's lived in the Midwest long enough that she should be used to the winters by now.