Sometimes small is good. I got to thinking this when I checked out the latest edition of the Storyblogging Carnival , which begins with a number of flash fictions.
That got me thinking about another website I’d visited recently, where you can send in the title, and they will write a 100-word story to explain it. (I liked “Unicorn Slaughter” and “The Day the Internet Stopped”. Elison is also a master of the short wad.
There’s also sites (ironically, a large number) devoted to 50-word stories [google search] and an equally large number devoted to the famous Hemingway 6-word story, and even within genres, such as this Wired collection of SF 6-word stories.
I’ve been toying around with microfiction — 140-character stories, such as the ones published by Outshine and Thaumatrope .
But I have a question: are they really stories at all?
maybe not stories… I think we need a new word for them.
How about “sto”s?
“Storrhea” works for me.
Naturally. 🙂 m.
I’m just getting home. I’ll be back later tonight to catch up on this awesome post.