What is the author's style in Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories by James Thomas?

As one can imagine, there are diverse styles of writing, word usage and rhetoric in the over seventy stories contained in "Flash Fiction." The first story, "Brilliant Silence," is written in a light-hearted, whimsical manner. Since this is a story about magical dancing bears, a fanciful approach is perfectly fitting. In "From the Floodlands," the writer uses a metonym and hyperbole to describe the oppressive weather in his southern town: "Here at the bottom of the country our windows drip with summer....This weekend seven people went for afternoon walks and drowned on the air," (p. 47).