Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cataclysm Baby | 2012 | Matt Bell | Buy |
Cataclysm Baby (2012) is an abecedarian novella: 26 linked flash-fiction pieces arranged alphabetically, each named for a child. The parents in these stories struggle to protect their children as the world breaks apart in different ways. Some children are born wrong; some are born into a world that has already gone wrong around them.
The book was published by Mud Luscious Press and sits at the intersection of flash fiction, prose poetry, and horror. It won praise for compressing enormous emotional range into very short pieces.