Cinderella She Was Not: A Novelette

Over the years Thurber’s work has received a long list of awards and honors, and appeared in over 60 anthologies. With an established reputation for delivering lean, tight prose, his stories are straightforward and impactful, and his candid voice resonates, leading one to ＂undiscovered corners of the human heart.＂ His stories are＂authentic and have enormous verisimilitude. No false notes.＂ -- Born in 1955 and raised in abject poverty, Bob made it through high school by the skin of his teeth. He spent the next twenty years working menial jobs while teaching himself to write. During that long apprenticeship, he studied and worked at writing nearly every day, refining his skills, before submitting his work for publication. -- Since then, his remarkably concise stories (which he refers to as ＂small fictions＂) have found homes in numerous magazines, including Esquire, appeared on hundreds of websites, and received numerous awards, among them The Marjory Bartlett Sanger Award, The Meridian Editors’ Prize, and The Barry Hannah Fiction Prize. He made Esquire’s top-ten list in the magazines 78th anniversary short Fiction contest and has been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes. -- A recognized ＂pioneer in the Micro and Flash crafts＂ he is considered a ＂grand master＂ of the form, and his stories are frequently utilized in schools and universities in the US and abroad as teaching tools and examples of concise prose. For more information visit: BobThurber.net