Flash Fiction writing legend Tommy Dean called this debut collection "wickedly fun, deeply cutting, and as creepy as a funhouse mirror." Meet award-winning author M. M. De Voe in a collection of dark, challenging stories that represent some of her best writing in short fiction from 2005 to the present. Part of Borda Books' series of BOLD VOICES IN FICTION, in this exciting debut anthology, DeVoe juggles literary fiction with fables, science fiction with horror, pagan satire with the fantastical. What shines through in these quirky tales is intelligence and daring. What is real and what is unreal? Terese Svoboda, author of Dog on Fire, says, "Milda De Voe gives you femme Kafka in A Flash of Darkness - but American style: 'with nosies and lights that simulate the beautiful side of violence.' The stories cruise the scene with a chess-playing vicious granny and a Svetlana lounging against a furry elk, 'calling to mind every vodka ad young American Jim had ever taped to a dorm room ceiling, ' One swain can't hold his date's hand; though she has left it on the table: a treat between beers.' De Voe's especially brilliant on family life, and ends the book with a quirky story about a husband and what else? Horror." Certain to appeal to fans of Black Mirror, Twilight Zone, and Kelly Link, the stories in A Flash of Darkness "dance across the page" and engage dark humor, satire, and plenty of provocative narratives. The cast of characters is unforgettable. "M. M. De Voe's collection, A Flash of Darkness, showcases deviously decadent morsels in the vein of Black Mirror. Despair, longing, and regret linger in these unnerving, provocative stories." -Amy Grech, horror author M. M. De Voe's odd, dark stories represent some of her best stories from 2005 to the present. De Voe juggles literary fiction with fables, science fiction with horror, pagan satire with the fantastical. But what shines through is intelligence and darin