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Sherrie Flick's stunning stories feel cozy to me. I mean that in the best way possible. It's like I'm in her kitchen eating something delicious, drinking something warm and woozying, and listening to her tell me all she knows about this world we live in.
Flick's short fiction is often closer to poetry than to conventional short stories. Though she specializes in flash fiction, she stretches out a bit in a few of the stories here. Funny and lightly fanciful, the stories always carry a powerful emotional undercurrent, one that tends to sneak up on you.
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The writing of author Sherrie Flick in her short story and flash fiction collection, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars,' delights the reader with brushstrokes of words that create new ways of looking at old objects and situations. Much of this book focuses on relationships, primarily relationships that have gone bad via boredom. Some relationships are not much more than quick hook-ups, others involve long-term commitments. The reader is left with the validation of an already-known truth: Although relation...
Thank Your Lucky Stars is a meditation on relationships. These short stories and flashes illuminate the universal ache for intimacy. Infused with melancholy, humor and ultimately hope, Sherrie Flick offers cinematic vignettes set in bars and kitchens, country roads and creaky back porches overlooking noisy cityscapes and urban gardens. Don’t be fooled by the domestic flourishes of baking bread, gardening and the sipping of tea, Flick is a feminist. Her female characters are infused with wit and
I will be returning again and again for the mastery in the short story. These characters are wonderful and dynamic. Flick is a wonderful and concise storyteller. She chooses her words carefully and perfectly.
Very few are better at blending simple domesticity and loaded personal relationships. There is a whole universe in the smallest of gestures in Flick's writing. Some wonderful new stories with some older gems.
Good writers have the ability to find comedy in one moment and tragedy in another. Great writers can find them in varying degrees throughout their life experiences and the ability to convey that in the stories they tell their readers. Sherrie's compilation of stories and compositions does that, particularly "Expectations," which perfectly captures the frustrations of dating and the unrealistic expectations we carry into it. That itself could be expanded into a book. Highly recommend reading the
