Foxhead Books has released a new book of short fiction by author Sheldon Lee Compton entitled "Where Alligators Sleep" (ISBN: 978-1940876085).
Compton is the author of the collection "The Same Terrible Storm" (Foxhead Books, 2012), a 2013 nominee for the Chaffin Award in Appalachian Writing. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Still: Journal Award and the Gertrude Stein Fiction Award.With "Where Alligators Sleep," Compton offers us another stunning collection of short fiction at its best -- piquant, compelling, and profound. The collection's dozens of stories (66, to be precise) bring readers fraught, masterfully crafted tales, seasoned with the good news of destiny, redemption, and catharsis.In a recent interview with Steph Post, editor of Pandamoon Publishing, Compton said that his latest collection of flash fiction began almost as joke between himself and another author."I started writing these really short stories [around 2008] to entertain a writer friend of mine and he did the same [for me]. We would send them back and forth just to entertain each other that way. But at some point... we started noticing a lot of these 'flash' pieces were being accepted at a lot of journals we'd never heard of. We sent a few out and were rejected... We decided to have a competition to see who could accumulate the most rejections over the course of a couple months. For the first month, I won hands down."Videos