Donald Barthelme is the father of postmodern fiction and funny as all hell. This page represents everything I could find written by him on the web, some select extra commentary, and some stories I scanned myself or others contributed.
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
Thank you so much for stopping by and commenting last week. It did feel like a celebration. I'm only sorry I can't hand out prizes to everyone. So who won? Kimbofo of Reading Matters. Congrats! I had so many suggestions on your favorite book read this ye
Book reviews, both fiction & nonfiction; columns on contextual matters surrounding the literary process & product; a blog; a great line drawing of a naked girl lying on her belly, nose in a book, all done up in red ink; and feature aricles with...well, wh