He also wrote Violent Outbursts, a collection of flash fiction (Spuyten Duvil 2015), of which John Amen writing in the Los Angeles Review said, "Rutkowski mines the confessional approach, everyday occurrences, and the fantastical, displaying thematic and stylistic range, with most of the pieces in this collection totaling less than five hundred words in length....".
Jim Bourey writing in the Broadkill Review said ...." Haywire is a Thaddeus Rutkowski marvel and each short chapter is a wild ride that carries us through the life of a Polish-American/Chinese man.
John Brantingham writing on the volume in Cultural Weekly remarked that '...he captures the universal sense of alienation that seems to be a part of human existence especially in this new age of COVID".
[11] Peter Selgin, in writing about Haywire in the American Book Review said "...."[Rutkowski's] works build their effects cumulatively, through an accretion of discreet moments, ... so reading them is like eating a bag of potato chips, with each non-sequitur scene its own salty, satisfying morsel ('Bet you can't eat just one')"...
[12] Also in 2012, his book Haywire was named a finalist for Best Fiction by the Asian American Literary Awards.