ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, February 9, 1996               TAG: 9602090092
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-10 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 

SHORT AND SWEET

LENGTH: Short :   17 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  Edward Falco, the writer Publisher's Weekly called "a 
          sterling practioner of the short story form," will read from his 
          latest work, "Acid," Thursday at 7 p.m. in Blacksburg's University 
          Volume Two Bookstore. "Acid," a collection of 13 stories, won the 
          Richard Sullivan Prize for Short Fiction.