A novel, in flash fiction style, Pipette starts with a woman on a train returning from the ballet, to her dogs, her partner.

Trouble at home escalates. The country is on edge. She tries to escape a threatening situation.  Then comes a pandemic; our protagonist hangs out with her dogs, manages remote teaching.

With leitmotifs of skiing, dogs, trains, waterways, birds, nature, spiritual guides, triathlons, she writes, she teaches, she swims/bikes/runs. The novel dips into her past—trauma, relationships, activities, working in the lab—which pendulums, then finally propels forward.

Pipette was include in IndiReader’s list of Best Reviewed Books, October, 2022.  Also see the very nice review by David Reyes for The Book Commentary  and an interview with Lisa Haselton.

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“Kim Chinquee is an American original” reports Ben Bradlee, Jr.  This is her fifth collection of flash fictions from Ravenna, and a true delight.

Read the interview with Kim Chinquee and Peter Ramos at Heavy Feather Review as well as their review by Naya Clark.  Also read Rachel Rueckert’s observations in The Literary Review

Also see the interview by Christina Deputa on Medium and, in Tupelo Quarterly, the interview with Kristina Marie Darling.

Another in the Ravenna series of fabulous short fictions by Kim Chinquee.  Per James Thomas (editor of Flash Fiction, Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction International): “This book is brilliant, every bit of it.  One delight after another.  Chinquee makes the English language sing–amazing sentences, beautiful lines, incredible strokes.  Dazzling.”

From Aimee Parkison review now available at Rain Taxi:

”Kim Chinquee’s Wetsuit takes hold of the reader, making one feel there is a fine line between fiction and real- ity. Precisely written in a clean, clear, minimal- ist style, these brief stories are about the ways we protect ourselves from pain while immersing ourselves in life the way a fierce swimmer immerses herself in the deepest of waters.  These flash fictions stand on their own, but if one envisions the women in the stories as the same woman, they also have a sense of continuity, so it is easy to read the book as an episodic short novel with flash chapters.”

See the full review on the Rain Taxi website.

Also see the interview by Nancy Stohlman at:  https://nancystohlman.com/2020/01/02/so-you-wrote-a-book-kim-chinquee/?fbclid=IwAR3c_xk2iVF1bc5xyQtp4b8Ff4CyQm19iBY2xYLQ3uFyL2DxnZJEwPRBHs0

This latest from Kim Chinquee is a collection of flash and short stories, gripping and gritty tales of life, love, and our common humanity.  ”Kim Chinquee writes tenderly about tough women—soldiers, cops, survivors of violence—and brings a fierce empathy and lyricism to these stories of hardscrabble lives. Shot Girls is a remarkable collection; Chinquee is an important and necessary writer for these times.”—Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will and Stay Awake