Short Stories

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"Listen the Board is Talking" and "Girl Crushes" PLUS the stories that inspired my one-plays will be among the 25 short reads featured in Mixed Shorts.

A complete reading experience with varied themes and genres!

Whenever someone read a short story I wrote, it was guaranteed they'd ask, "How do you know how many words for your story?"

I suppose my best answer was, "When the story is finished, you count the words. And that would be the number you needed for your story." Now, however, I understand that there are more than one 'kind' of short story.

One of my favorite sites, in the New York Times, , manages to lighten our hearts, with 100 word or less love stories.

Tiny Love Stories

Definitions for the SHORT STORY

A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and

less elaborate than a novel - Oxford Dictionary

An invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually

dealing with a few characters

and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of

mood rather than plot - Merriam-Webster

2,500 - 5,000 words

Definition for a SHORT-SHORT STORY

A very short piece of prose fiction, much more condensed than the average short story.

500 - 2,500 words

Contests are held for stories with as little as two words.

A well-known two-word story: Jesus wept.

Many contests have asked for submissions for four-or five-word stories. Each has a subject, an object, a verb and maybe one description or refining notion.

My favorites (authors unknown) include

a sad story:

We all die someday.

and,

a horror story:

Just saw my reflection blink.

There's not much that compare with the feeling you have when seeing your words in print

or hearing a recording of a poem you've written,

or watching the characters you've created on paper come alive on stage.

That's magic.

"Writing is the only thing, that, when I do it,

I don't feel I should be doing something else." - Gloria Steinem