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Dearest reader: If you're like me--that is, if you pride yourself on having learned once to read; if, in fact, the thought of yourself as not just literate but 'literary' gives you an inner glow of superiority; but if, in the passage of time, your attention span has proved barely sufficient to read the instructions on a package of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese--then you will probably enjoy Flash Fiction, a collection of very short stories. (Maximum length: 750 words.) Some of the stories are great; almost all are good; very few are bad; and all of them are over in four pages or less.

Yay Powell's

Date: 2003-03-19 12:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greyaenigma.livejournal.com
Sorry, what was that again? You lost me shortly after "dearest reader"...

I get pretty worried about how short my attention span has gotten these days.

Excuse me, I have to go and check mail again. Then check my MOO window, code a little, then check LJ again, check e-mail, check LJ, check MOO, open another minimize window for no reason, check MOO window, check mail again, get a drink of water, open an old mail message to stare blankly at it, look at the clock, stare at my code some more, oh look -- baubles, check e-mail, mm -- lunch.

Date: 2003-03-19 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artname.livejournal.com
I've been a big fan of Spencer Holst, the first author mentioned. I haven't checked on him for a long time, but I'm glad he's still writing.

Date: 2003-03-19 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jfb.livejournal.com
He could be, but these stories aren't all recent. There's a Raymond Carver story, for example, and he's dead.

Date: 2003-03-19 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artname.livejournal.com
The Arts/Cultural Desk | December 5, 2001, Wednesday
Spencer Holst, 75, Writer and Teller of Fables

By HARVEY SHAPIRO (NYT) 626 words
Late Edition [New York Times] - Final , Section A , Page 27 , Column 4
ABSTRACT - Spence Holst, writer and teller of fables, dies at age 75; photo (M) Spencer Holst, a writer of fables and a fixture of the downtown Manhattan avant-garde scene for 30 years, died on Nov. 23 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 75.

He had been suffering from emphysema and apparently died of a stroke, said George Quasha, a co-owner of Station Hill/Barrytown, Mr. Holst's publisher.

Date: 2003-03-19 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
See also Nanofiction (http://wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Nanofiction.html).

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