You should, by now, know the basic setup for our annual summer microfiction package: local authors write short short stories (between around 150 and 900 words) set in and around Dallas. For the first ...

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In a Current Comment item in the America issue of March 2, 2008, the editors commented on microfiction, the venerable subgenre of fiction that forsakes the traditional short story length, usually ...

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true is a cutesy Hallmark sentiment. Follow your heart and your dreams will probably come crashing into a heap around you is the more realistic version, one ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Serial Box is experimenting with super-short fiction with Microfiction Mondays Serial Box is experimenting with ...

BALTIMORE — I’m at the front door of artist Joseph Young’s house, in the middle of a lovely block in the lovely neighborhood of Hampden. It’s a perfect October day. Instead of a welcome mat, I just ...