“…a collection of short-shorts that serves to highlight the value of abbreviated, urgent storytelling—of precise, finely wrought metaphors and evocative images that linger long after you turn the page.”

Flashes of War is written in "a deceptively minimalist style that out-Carvers Carver and exposes the traumas of war without any breast-beating outrage.”

"In a series of searing vignettes, Katey Schultz has captured our contemporary warscapes with a panoramic intensity. Writing of this degree of commitment and integrity is living evidence of the power of fiction to tell the truth about reality. This is a brilliant, unsettling, and disturbingly beautiful book.”

“Katey Schultz has written an amazing book. What emerges from these stories is a chorus of voices—American, Afghan, Iraqi—and this chorus enlarged my sense of a war that has defined an American decade. Flashes of War is the work of a bold, ambitious, and brilliant young author who is writing stories few others in American fiction have really yet tackled.”