"It's tempting to compare Joseph's marvelous collection of microfictions to many things, miniature portraits, maybe, or model ships inside bottles, or flashes of lives glimpsed through windows in the night. But when writing is as honest and true as this, it seems wrong to call it anything but what it is: very very short, very very good stories, each one grasping at "starlight . . . out of reach" with "small and smaller tries."" --Pasha Malla, author...