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Flush fiction : 88 short-short stories you can read in a single sitting / Compiled by the editors of the Bathroom Readers' Institute.

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Portable Press, c2012.

Uncle John's bathroom reader.

9781607104278 (trade pbk.)

160710427X (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader presents Flush Fiction

286 p. ; 21 cm.

What is the difference between optometrists and opthamologists? / Eric Cline -- Old man had to pee / Corey Mertes -- Safety drill / M. Garrett Bauman -- Then / Joe Novara -- Dead man's float / Sally Bellerose -- Taste of failure / Andrew S. Williams -- One million years B.F.E.: Diary of an anthropologist in exile -- Checking out a geezer / Florence Bruce -- Prince charming / Christian Delia -- Curb appeal / Katherine Tomlinson -- Vanilla or chocolate / Skye Hillgartner -- Newest edition of Richard Phlattwaire / Jess Del Balzo -- Two urinals from death / James Sabata -- Cold is my love / Johnny Gunn -- No sweat / Phil Richardson -- Precision forged / Adrian Dorris -- Death by anything / Siobhan Gallagher -- Jiggs and Bob / Charles N. Beecham -- Wrestling with alienation / Desmon Warzel -- Shoot for Jesus / Courtney Walsh -- Headhunter / William R.D. Wood -- My first foreign woman and the sea / Robert Perchan -- Buttons / Edward Palumbo -- Black lung and broken heart / Tom J. Lynch -- Irreverisble dad / Kenton K. Yee -- Death & taxes / A.J. Sweeney -- Brains for breakfast / Beth Cato -- Clueless / Eric Pinder -- Mr. Agreeable / Kirk Nesset -- Secret ingredient / Rebecca Roland -- Late / David O'Neal -- Perfect camping trip / Gail Denham -- Unseeing eye / Marsh Cassady -- Aftermath / Corey Mesler -- Rusty the pirate (a historical feghoot) / R.W. Morris -- Between the trees / Daniel Chacon -- 14 B / Nathaniel Lee -- Bitchy fish / Robert Taylor and Lindsay Gillingham Taylor -- Duel / Darren Sant -- Biggest! Fan! Ever! / Sonia Orin Lyris -- Right job for the man / Robert Pepper -- Moan on the range / Douglas Hutcheson -- Confessions of a husband beater / Katherin A. Turski -- Other foot / S. Michael Wilson -- Intergalactic book club / Daniel Kason -- Not-so-ancient Chinese proverb / S.G. Rogers -- For Wile E. Coyote, apetitius giganticus / Jason Schossler -- Around the block / Courtney Walsh -- Waterhole / Colleen Shea Skaggs -- Nothing / Douglas Smith -- Long tossed like the driven foam / K.G. Jewell -- Boat / Steve Cushman -- Grandma's pillbox / Celeste Leibowitz -- In the shadows / Janel Gradowski -- Kitchen basics / Sealey Andrews -- Star gazer's manifesto / Sean Flanders -- On the shore / Deirdre M. Murphy -- Detached / Noel Sloboda -- Second rudolph / Cindy Tomamichel -- Glutton for punishment / Thomas Pluck -- Charlie makes his way / Peggy McFarland -- Milk jug garden / Sally Clark -- Proof in the pudding / Brent Knowles -- Feminine mystique / Elizabeth Creith -- Traces of Max / Cathy C. Hall -- Sad wonderful life of Ed Fergler / Kathy Allen -- Return of the zombie / Michael Penkas -- One last time / Cynthia Rogan -- Coffee with Anna / Ginny Swart -- Fresh ideas / John P. McCann -- Mysterious ways / David Steffen -- Health tips for traveler / David E. Goldman -- Loom of doom galls mainly in the tomb / Barry Ergang -- Sovenir you most want / Sue Burke -- 'Till death do us part / Elaine Isaak -- Corporation / Megan Todd Boone -- My wife / Steve Koppman -- Hamster / Tara Laskowski -- Burn baby burn (the world's shortest vampire romance) / Jason Sanford -- Succession: A facebook parable / John M. Solensten -- Dr. Lookingood's extreme miracle weight loss powder / Andrea Brill -- Outside the box / John Haggerty -- Excuse me / Scott W. Baker -- Great weight / Joe Ponepinto -- From the ashes / Jamie Lackey -- Plum pudding paradox / Jay Werkheiser -- Where has the dog gone? / Lisbeth Mizula -- Don't take this personally / Richard Holinger.

A tantalizing collection of 88 short-short stories custom-picked for the Bathroom Reader aficionado. We scoured the nation for talented writers and asked them to send us their best quick reads. The result: mysteries, horror, sci-fi, adventure, plenty of laughs--and a few gasps--in these startling short stories that can be read is just one 'go'.

Bathroom Readers' Institute (Ashland, Or.)

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