Sean Hill

In this collection of 250-Word stories, author Sean Hill (creator of @VeryShortStory) has crafted fifty creative, humorous tales that include a touch of strange. These engaging flash fiction stories invoke worlds that entertain and stay with you long after reading them. PRAISE FOR SEAN HILL'S WRITING "Story telling is his bag, pure and simple." - Austin American Statesman "Witty, well-crafted and always thought-provoking." - Salt Lake Tribune Stories in this collection: Harmony Sometimes Cake Love This Time Around Jared Your Birthday Slave Wanted From Nothing My Collection Mother(r) Puppy One. Two. Three. Permanent Match Therapy Pain Firing People Donna I Like You Ted Nedland The Kim and I Hilda To Become King Hotel Lobby The Closet Fat The Map Old Photograph Expanding My Horizons Will of Alfred Lochner Re-parenting Freedom Ballpark Strange The Clown Terry Imagining Things You Would Think Monkey Paw It Happened Again Candy On the Prowl Who Wears the Pants? Battleground I've Always had It Tess Day at the Office Martin Smash the Hammer Family Dog Large Coffee, Cream, Seven Splenda Rainy D

250-Word Stories

Smash the Hammer

The poems in this collection transform the author's hometown into a poetic

Blood Ties and Brown Liquor

From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as "transcendent" (Kevin Young) and "steadily confident" (Carl Phillips), Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker throughout North America and abroad, illuminating the ways in which home and place may inhabit one another comfortably or uncomfortably—or both simultaneously. From the Bahamas, London, and Cairo, to Bemidji, Minnesota, and Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill interweaves the contemporary with the historical, and explores with urgency the relationship between travel, migration, alienation, and home. Here, playful "postcard" poems addressed to Nostalgia and My Third Crush Today sit alongside powerful reflections on the immigration of African Americans to Liberia during and after the era of slavery. Such range and formal innovation make Hill's second collection both rare and exhilarating. Part shadowbox, part migration map, part travelogue-in-verse, Dangerous Goods is poignant, elegant, and deeply moving.

Poems

Dangerous Goods

Yike Guo

Karl Friston

Faisal Aldo

Hanchuan Peng

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health, BIH 2015, held in London, UK, in August/September 2015. The 42 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. Following the success of past conferences in this series, BIH 2015 has a strong emphasis on emerging trends of big data analysis and management technology for brain research, behavior learning, and real-world applications of brain science in human health and wellbeing.

8th International Conference, BIH 2015, London, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2015. Proceedings

Brain Informatics and Health

CREATIVE FICTION THAT FITS ON A POST-IT BUT CAN MOVE READERS WITH POWERFUL TALES OF LOVE, LIFE, DEATH, AND EVERYDAY LIFE In this one-of-a-kind collection, author Sean Hill has crafted hundreds of engaging stories that conjure an entire novel in just a sentence or two. Sometimes sad, often humorous and always creative, these tales touch on a wide range of life experiences from romance and family to death and sex. Nana rocked in her old wooden rocking chair. “Timmy, you have always been my favorite,” she said. He looked at her. “Nana, I’m Bobby.” Read your diary, discovered your secret. I thought I loved you, but now I’m not sure. Don’t know what to do, you look so human. Clowning was Daryl’s profession, cooking was his passion. Stella thought he was perfect. She liked to laugh and never learned to cook. Alex bought Sharon a ring for Valentine’s Day, which she sold to buy the gun that stopped him from loving her. In 2009, Sean Hill combined his love of writing and technology by creating @VeryShortStory, a Twitter feed where he interacts with his readers and shares his 140-character stories.

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