Smash The Hammer: 250-Word Stories - Paperback

by Sean Hill (Author)

In this collection of 250-Word stories, author Sean Hill (creator of @VeryShortStory) has crafted fifty creative, humorous tales that include a touch of strange. These engaging flash fiction stories invoke worlds that entertain and stay with you long after reading them. PRAISE FOR SEAN HILL'S WRITING "Story telling is his bag, pure and simple." - Austin American Statesman "Witty, well-crafted and always thought-provoking." - Salt Lake Tribune Stories in this collection: Harmony Sometimes Cake Love This Time Around Jared Your Birthday Slave Wanted From Nothing My Collection Mother(R) Puppy One. Two. Three. Permanent Match Therapy Pain Firing People Donna I Like You Ted Nedland The Kim and I Hilda To Become King Hotel Lobby The Closet Fat The Map Old Photograph Expanding My Horizons Will of Alfred Lochner Re-parenting Freedom Ballpark Strange The Clown Terry Imagining Things You Would Think Monkey Paw It Happened Again Candy On the Prowl Who Wears the Pants? Battleground I've Always had It Tess Day at the Office Martin Smash the Hammer Family Dog Large Coffee, Cream, Seven Splenda Rainy Day

Author Biography

Sean Hill is a writer, speaker, coach, and consultant. He was overexposed to a potent combination of Twilight Zone and Monty Python as a child. This lead him down a dark path from which he never fully recovered and bound him with a passion to storytelling. Sean has spent much of his life combining creativity with work. Starting at age 19, he designed and programmed award-winning video games until he discovered improvisation, where ideas could be expressed as fast as they could be thought. He is the Founder of the Hideout Theatre, the premier venue in Austin, Texas, for helping people expand their creativity through the study of improv comedy, storytelling, and the art of creating in the moment. In 2009, Sean combined his love of writing and technology by creating @VeryShortStory, a Twitter feed where over 100,000 followers read the short stories he creates in 140-characters. When not writing, Sean teaches creativity, communication, collaboration, and innovation, workshops to clients such as Motorola and the University of Texas MBA program. Sean lives happily in Austin, Texas, with his wife, four children, and a lot of dogs. He can often be found performing improv comedy around town with his friends. Contact Sean online: Website: www.seanhill.com Twitter: @sean_hill