Reconstruction Work
Encyclopedia
"Reconstruction Work" is a flash fiction
short story
by Bruce Holland Rogers
. It first appeared in the December 2007 issue of Flash Fiction Online
and won the inaugural Micro Award in 2008. The story is of a conversation between a funeral home employee and the granddaughter of a deceased woman next to her casket.
Flash fiction
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...
short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
by Bruce Holland Rogers
Bruce Holland Rogers
Bruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and...
. It first appeared in the December 2007 issue of Flash Fiction Online
Flash Fiction Online
Flash Fiction Online is the first online magazine dedicated to professionalizing flash fiction in its own right.Flash fiction is loosely defined as stories of one thousand or fewer words, although the defining parameters vary from one publisher to another. Flash Fiction Online accepts stories from...
and won the inaugural Micro Award in 2008. The story is of a conversation between a funeral home employee and the granddaughter of a deceased woman next to her casket.