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Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories

Jerome Stern
3.71/5 (690 ratings)
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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.

Includes:

Poet's husband by M. Giles
Cough by Harry Humes
Daydream by R. Allen
Wrong channel by R. Fernandez
Harmony by J. Williams
20by20 by L. Brewer
Your fears are justified by R. DeMarinis
At the point by B. McCaddon
Halo by M. McFee
Mockingbird by L. Berry
Changing the channel by E.E. Miller
Wanting to fly by S. Dunning
Eclipsed by R. Shuster
New Year by P. Painter
Survivors by K. Addonizio
Anti-Cain by V. Suarez
Painted devils by F. Chappell
Honeycomb by N.R. Singer
Baby, baby, baby by F. Camoin
An old story by J. Kelman
Conception by T. Fleming
All this by J. Avallon
Stone belly girl by J. Granger Worry by R. Wallace
You can't see dogs on the radio by L. Wendling
True story of Mr. and Mrs. Wong by M. Chin
Flu by S. Dybek
The bridge by R. Edson
Kennedy in the barrio by J.O. Cofer
Grief by R. Carlson
Mount Olive by M.A. Love
Hurray for Hollywood by G. Garrett
This is how I remember it by Betsy Kemper
November by U. Hegi
Carpathia by J.L. Kercheval
Chickens by E. Magarrell
Mayor of the sister city speaks to the chamber of commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a night in December in 1976 by M. Martone
Confirmation names by M. Lippo
Hostess ; Housewife by A. Hempel
Land's end by A. Nelson
Last supper in the Cabinet Mountains by D. Bottoms
Strongman by W. White-Ring
Diverging paths and all that by M. O'Hara
A gentleman's C by P. Powell
Of exposure by J. Holman
Tea leaves by J. Burroway
We eat our peas for the souls in Purgatory by A. McPeters
Waiting by P. McNally
But what was her name? by D. Raffel
Guadalupe in the Promised Land by Sam Shepard
Morning news by J. Stern
Molibi by L. Hancock
Wallet by A. Woodman
Format:
Pages:
141 pages
Publication:
1996
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0393314324
ISBN13:
9780393314328
kindle Asin:
0393314324

Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories

Jerome Stern
3.71/5 (690 ratings)
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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.

Includes:

Poet's husband by M. Giles
Cough by Harry Humes
Daydream by R. Allen
Wrong channel by R. Fernandez
Harmony by J. Williams
20by20 by L. Brewer
Your fears are justified by R. DeMarinis
At the point by B. McCaddon
Halo by M. McFee
Mockingbird by L. Berry
Changing the channel by E.E. Miller
Wanting to fly by S. Dunning
Eclipsed by R. Shuster
New Year by P. Painter
Survivors by K. Addonizio
Anti-Cain by V. Suarez
Painted devils by F. Chappell
Honeycomb by N.R. Singer
Baby, baby, baby by F. Camoin
An old story by J. Kelman
Conception by T. Fleming
All this by J. Avallon
Stone belly girl by J. Granger Worry by R. Wallace
You can't see dogs on the radio by L. Wendling
True story of Mr. and Mrs. Wong by M. Chin
Flu by S. Dybek
The bridge by R. Edson
Kennedy in the barrio by J.O. Cofer
Grief by R. Carlson
Mount Olive by M.A. Love
Hurray for Hollywood by G. Garrett
This is how I remember it by Betsy Kemper
November by U. Hegi
Carpathia by J.L. Kercheval
Chickens by E. Magarrell
Mayor of the sister city speaks to the chamber of commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a night in December in 1976 by M. Martone
Confirmation names by M. Lippo
Hostess ; Housewife by A. Hempel
Land's end by A. Nelson
Last supper in the Cabinet Mountains by D. Bottoms
Strongman by W. White-Ring
Diverging paths and all that by M. O'Hara
A gentleman's C by P. Powell
Of exposure by J. Holman
Tea leaves by J. Burroway
We eat our peas for the souls in Purgatory by A. McPeters
Waiting by P. McNally
But what was her name? by D. Raffel
Guadalupe in the Promised Land by Sam Shepard
Morning news by J. Stern
Molibi by L. Hancock
Wallet by A. Woodman
Format:
Pages:
141 pages
Publication:
1996
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0393314324
ISBN13:
9780393314328
kindle Asin:
0393314324

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