Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words Or Fewer

Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words Or Fewer
Title Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words Or Fewer PDF eBook
Author Robert Swartwood
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 193
Release 2010-10-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393338460

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Collects more than one hundred short stories, each with no more than twenty-five words.

Flash Fiction Forward

Flash Fiction Forward
Title Flash Fiction Forward PDF eBook
Author James Thomas
Publisher W. W. Norton
Pages 237
Release 2006
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780393328028

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An anthology of bite-sized tales represents the work of some of today's best fiction writers and includes Rick Moody's definition of an armoire, Lydia Davis's sojourn into the world of cats, and Dave Eggers's exploration of narrow escapes. Original.

Micro Fiction

Micro Fiction
Title Micro Fiction PDF eBook
Author Jerome H. Stern
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 150
Release 1996
Genre Flash fiction
ISBN 9780393039689

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Ten years ago, Jerome Stern, director of the writing program at Florida State, initiated the World's Best Short Short Story Contest. Stories were to be about 250 words long; first prize was a check and a crate of oranges. Two to three thousand stories began to show up annually in Tallahassee, and National Public Radio regularly broadcast the winner. But, more important, the Micro form turned out to be contagious; stories of this "lack of length" now dot the literary magazines. The time seemed right, then, for this anthology, presenting a decade of contest winners and selected finalists. In addition, Stern commissioned Micros, persuading a roster of writers to accept the challenge of completing a story in one page. Jesse Lee Kercheval has a new spin on the sinking of the Titanic; Virgil Suarez sets his sights on the notorious Singapore caning; George Garrett conjures up a wondrous screen treatment pitch; and Antonya Nelson invites us into an eerie landscape. Verve and nerve and astonishing variety are here, with some wild denouements. How short can a Micro be, you wonder. Look up Amy Hempel's contribution, and you'll see.

Flash Fiction

Flash Fiction
Title Flash Fiction PDF eBook
Author James Thomas
Publisher W. W. Norton
Pages 224
Release 1992
Genre Flash fiction, American
ISBN 9780393033618

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"How short can a story be and still truly be a story? This volume of seventy-two very short fictions, none much more than 750 words in length, demonstrates to our repeated satisfaction that less can be more, small can stand tall, and the diminutive can be dynamically and dramatically complete." "Here for enjoyment and study are very short pieces by acknowledged modern masters--including Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, Margaret Atwood, Julio Cortazar and Tim O'Brien--as well as fiction by newer talents, who have embraced the short form with much gusto and considerable grace." "With a rich variety of stories and authors, subjects and styles and sensibilities, these flashes of fiction make for eclectic--and often electric-- reading. The volume is a must for readers and writers, indeed for anyone interested in the finely sharpened edge of contemporary literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia

Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia
Title Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia PDF eBook
Author K. S. Brooks
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Pages 136
Release 2013-01-17
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9781480213425

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In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.

Sudden Flash Youth

Sudden Flash Youth
Title Sudden Flash Youth PDF eBook
Author Christine Perkins-Hazuka
Publisher Karen and Michael Braziller Bo
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780892553716

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Presents a collection of short stories about significant moments which marked a turning point in the lives of young protagonists by such authors as Anne Mazer, Alan Stewart Carl, Dave Eggers, and Peter Bacho.

Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer

Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
Title Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer PDF eBook
Author Robert Swartwood
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 192
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393340228

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A story collection that proves less is more. The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's possibly apocryphal six-word story—"For Sale: baby shoes, never worn"—to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them "hint fiction" because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events. Spare and evocative, these stories prove that a brilliantly honed narrative can be as startling and powerful as a story of traditional length. The 125 gemlike stories in this collection come from such best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers.