The Last Few Minutes Before the Bomb (and Other Stories)

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Ten short stories and flash fictions by Eric Bosse, collected as a "chapbook" for Ravenna Press.

Praise for Eric Bosse's story collection, Magnificent Mistakes:

"The stories are indeed magnificent in depicting how strange we all are, inside and out. Characters’ lives slip out of their control as they try and fail to communicate and come to terms with their significant others, but in the end no-one dies . The stories are lean and funny and perfectly poised between tenderness and something much more steely-eyed. Some are short short fictions, but have in them as much detail as the best paintings by miniaturists. None of the stories tell you what to think, and many take you places you may not have been, even as they give accounts of the relationships we all have, with lovers and mothers and fathers and children. Oh, and rubber plants."
- A Wild Slim Alien, author of the blog "A Jumped-Up Pantry Boy"

"Eric Bosse has somehow learned all our secrets, and now he's put them on display in Magnificent Mistakes. With this cheerfully mordant collection, he takes it all on—God, patricide, deviant sex, jugglers with nothing left to live for—and doesn't flinch once throughout. Not satisfied with being merely funny or incisive, though, Bosse also manages to conjure and illuminate a basic, abiding humanity, even as he catalogues his characters' many failings, regrets, and peccadilloes."
- Ron Currie Jr., author of God is Dead and Everything Matters!

"Readers will find these nineteen stories beautifully strange and evocative. Inhabited by oddballs, lovers, ghosts, and runaways, the world Bosse creates is full of the unexpected, of chance encounters, and the vast and moving struggles of misfiring hearts. A stunning collection."
- Kathy Fish, author of Together We Can Bury It and Wild Life