Sudden fiction Monday through Wednesday. Long stories from known writers on Thursdays. Stories of any length from unknown writers on Fridays. For a moment the two men looked at each other nakedly. Then Morton turned his back on the man and said quietly
Other names for it include short-short stories, sudden, postcard, minute, furious, fast, quick, skinny, and micro fiction. In France such works are called nouvelles. In China this type of writing has several interesting names: little short story, pocket-s
I am a proponent and devotee of the genre of short-short fiction, becoming popularly known as, "Sudden Fiction." I find this approach to short fiction a great exercise for all serious fiction writers. The compact, energized nature of sudden fiction forces
"Well, no," replied the botanist. "These societies lack language, art, learning, consciousness, feeling; in a word — they lack souls and hearts, which we human beings possess. Here everything happens blindly, mechanically, without sympathies and without