It's here. Welcome, book.

Sudden Flash Youth, a new collection of young adult flash fiction from Persea Books, is out now. It includes my short piece, "For Good," about Juan and Cece at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. You'll find work from Steve Almond, Richard Bausch, Stuart Dybeck, Dave Eggers, Pia Z. Erhardt, Meg Kearney, Paul Lisicky, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pamela Painter, Robert Shapard, Alice Walker, and many, many others. The book is edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman.

This piece of art gets special mention in my story (The artist is Do-Ho Suh):

And so does this one, by artist Robert Indiana: