A Bright and Pleading Dagger

By Nicole Rivas

Fiction. Flash Fiction. Finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Awards. A dazzling and incisive collection of twelve flash fictions illuminating the varied lives of women and girls, Nicole Rivas' A BRIGHT AND PLEADING DAGGER immerses readers in its subjects' complex experiences with desire, selfhood, and omnipresent danger. A pizza shop worker goes on a series of visceral dates with her gynecologist; a slighted lover coughs up a forgotten childhood toy; an artist unknowingly becomes the subject of an intrusive admirer's lust; a woman has a heated staring contest with the world's oldest man. Powerful and precise, Rivas' stories highlight the unreality within the real, simultaneously evoking humor, outrage, and awe.

A BRIGHT AND PLEADING DAGGER is the winner of the 12th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, judged by Rigoberto Gonz lez. This limited edition chapbook features two-color letterpress covers and specialty endpapers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941628141
• ISBN13: 9781941628140
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Rose Metal Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 7.1"