Loose Threads 2

After two years writing novels, novellas, novelettes and comic books, Luis Filipe Alves returned to flash fiction, only to find that it wasn't as easy as he remembered.

This book includes his best attempts to relearn the flash fiction format, all originally published at the author's official website. The stories are:

Staying Down: A taxi driver and his customer debate why the driver refuses to travel by airplane.

Open Life: Alfredo believes honesty and openness are the greatest virtues, but a certain social network doesn't agree.

The Best Medicine: Handling computers in the age of nanotechnology and 3D printing may be hazardous to your health.

Suicide Risk: An app designed to detect suicide risks on social networks gives strange results when it comes to Norberto's life.

Fear Of The Dark: Technological evolution teaches Humanity more than anyone could have expected.

Centrenet: In a not so distant future where information and technology rule, certain more traditional talents are more important than ever.

Digital Darius: Darius abandons his physical shape to became a purely digital being, and thus immortal. But life online is more complicated than he expected.

The Great Masturbator: Interpreting a Dali painting in light of a relationship that doesn't exist.

A Plan For God: God decides He has taken Humanity as far as He can, and gathers a panel of specialists from various areas to find new ideas and plans for our continued evolution.

Quietness: It's not easy to force a human statue to move, but someone is determined to do it.

Dettagli