The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon

Dark, glittering, and dead serious when it’s not hilarious, The Cake, the Smoke, the Moon is a delight. Within these pages you’ll find potent gems by a master miniaturist; stories that crackle with the sheer electricity of their inventiveness. This is a book of and for the haunted among us, where only the moon (and Francine Witte) know the truth.

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Dark, glittering, and dead serious when it’s not hilarious, The Cake, the Smoke, the Moon is a delight. Within these pages you’ll find potent gems by a master miniaturist; stories that crackle with the sheer electricity of their inventiveness. This is a book of and for the haunted among us, where only the moon (and Francine Witte) know the truth.

–Kathy Fish, author of Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018

Francine Witte’s precise economy of words and rich employment of voice, scene and imagery create such vibrant evocations in the extraordinary The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon. She is, without a doubt, a modern-day Chekhov, and one of the most luminous stars in the flash and micro world.

—Nathan Leslie, Best Small Fictions & Hurry Up and Relax

The twenty very short stories in Francine Witte’s The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon are by turns sharp and tender, quirky and heartbreaking in their explorations of feckless fathers, the mother who imparts life lessons through lemon wedges, and the children who are left to wonder “Where does smoke go when it dies?” I can’t think of another writer working today who writes so brilliantly and precisely, whose keen eyes and ears are tuned in to the grotesque and the beautiful – in essence, the worlds we’ve wrought.

–Sarah Freligh, author of We

About the Author

Francine Witte’s flash fiction has been published in numerous journals and the anthologies Flash Fiction Funny (Blue Light Press) and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton.), Best Microfiction 2020, and Best Small Fictions 2020. She is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks, Cold June, (Ropewalk Press) winner of the 2010 Thomas Wilhelmus Award, and The Wind Twirls Everything (Musclehead Press.) Her novella-in-flash The Way of The Wind (Ad Hoc Press,) was cited as a highly recommended selection in the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her poetry chapbooks include two first-prize winners, First Rain (Pecan Grove Press,) and Not All Fires Burn the Same (Slipstream Press.) She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Café Crazy, and The Theory of Flesh, (both from Kelsay Press.) Her play Love is a Bad Neighborhood was produced off-Broadway by Miller Coffman Productions. She edits the column Flash Boulevard on George Wallace’s Facebook blog poetrybay. She is an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and a poetry reader for Pidgeonholes. She is a former high school teacher. She lives in Manhattan, NYC with her husband, Mark Larsen.

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