When Fiction Hits the Brakes, Swerves, and Floors It

Unsolicited Press is proud to announce the release of Swerving Sizes, a razor-sharp collection of micro fictions from Michael Cocchiarale, arriving March 17, 2026. Every story in this electric volume lands at exactly 100, 200, or 300 words, proving that limits don’t restrain great fiction—they ignite it.

Born out of the claustrophobia and constraint of the global pandemic, these micros slice straight into the emotional tendons of modern life: family tensions, romantic fractures, illness, mortality, political absurdity, and the human desire to bust out of the boxes we’re put in. Some characters break free. Others crash into the walls. All of them make you look closer.

The book is split clean down the middle: “Regular,” where realism rules, and “Extra,” where the surreal, absurd, and structurally daring take center stage. Together, they deliver a reading experience that’s quick, cutting, and impossible to shake off.

Cocchiarale—Associate Professor of English at Widener University and author of multiple acclaimed works—proves once again that he knows exactly where fiction’s pressure points are…and how to press.

Swerving Sizes is available directly from Unsolicited Press and all major retailers.