The Best of CafeLit 5

 

Each story in this little volume is the right length and quality for enjoying as you sip the assigned drink in your favourite Creative Café. You need never feel alone again in a café. So what's the mood today? Espresso? Earl Grey tea? Hot chocolate with marshmallows? You'll find most drinks in our drinks index.

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I really enjoyed this collection of flash fiction and short stories and was sorry when I finished it. I may read it again! Each story was different - some quirky, some sad, some funny. I recommend this book, especially to those who have little time to read - it's true you can read one of the stories over your morning coffee or afternoon tea.  

 

Contributors 

Mary Bevan, Janet Bunce, Alan Cadman, Neil Campbell, Sue Cross,David Deanshaw, Susan A Eames, Linda Flynn, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Vanessa Horn, Gill James, Vicky Jacobson, Dawn Knox, Helen Laycock, B. Lieve, Roger Noons, Mike Olley, Jenny Palmer, Eleanor Patrick, James Phillips, Paula R C Readman, Penny Rogers, Tania Sharman, Allison Symes, Laura van Weegen, Paul Westgate.

ISBN: 9781910542040

'I’m an Anglophile, I love tea, the Beatles, and London.  When asked to review The Best of Cafe Lit Volume 5, I jumped right in.  One aspect of Cafe Lit is the assignment of a drink to each story.  Drinks are also featured in several of them.  This is a collection of entertaining, sometimes quirky, mostly flash fiction-length stories.

I love flash fiction and have written over 100 myself, so I reviewed these with interest.  You will love some of the stories, be baffled by some and find a few to be too long for this collection.  The authors bring their background, life experiences and especially their travel to your attention.  Whether it’s a gloomy English countryside or shark diving in Fiji, the reader will find images worth exploring.  I intend to look up other works by some of the authors, thankfully listed after each story.  

This collection is best read in short stints with your favorite cup of tea or glass of wine.  Don’t overdue it.  Like wine, they are best savored in limited quantities.  

Jerry Guarino is an author and screenwriter.  He has contributed several stories to Cafe Lit and was a former editor for Flash Fiction Magazine.  You can read hundreds of his stories for free at cafestories.net'