Pam Berkman

Pam Berkman has authored or co-authored five books of fiction from Simon & Schuster, and her poetry and flash fiction have been published by Loud Coffee Press and Devil’s Party Press. Her short story “The Falling Nun” appeared in Faultline and was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Pam works in educational publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area and also serves as managing editor at Bull City Press, an independent micropress in Durham, NC, specializing in poetry, flash fiction, chapbooks, and microchap books.

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► Pam Berkman's microchap story is available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

ELECTRON: A SIX-PAGE NOVEL IN VERSE

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Cover image from addictivephysics.com

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there is no are
there is no were
there is no is
the electron ambles on
round and lonely

where is everybody?

it grows weary of watching the entire history
of the black empty universe
unfold in timelapse directly over its tiny head
and there is no history
and time cannot lapse
and there is no slow motion
because there is no slow
there is no dark
there is no light
there is only empty endless
never beginning
and anyway the electron has no mass
so alas
no head

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