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micro-fiction (my.kroh-FIK.shun) n. An extremely short literary work, typically no more than a few hundred words. Also: microfiction.

"Forgive me!" "What for?" "Never mind."
-John Updike

Eyeballed me, killed him. Slight exaggeration.
-Irvine Welsh

Satan-- Jehovah-- fifteen rounds. A draw.
-Norman Mailer

"Welcome to Moeshe Christiansen's Bar Mitzvah."
-Andrea Seigel

grass, cow, calf, milk, cheese, France.
-Rick Moody

He remembered something that never happened.
-AM Homes

Saigon hotel. Decades later. He weeps.
-Robert Olen Butler

She gave. He took. He forgot.
-Tobias Wolff

--I love you . . . --Love ya back.
-Courtney Eldridge

You are not shit. You are!
-Memoir, Jerry Stahl

All her life: half a house.
-Jamie O'Neill

Poison; meditation; skiing; ants-- nothing worked.
-Edward Albee

My nemesis is dead. Now what?
-Micheal Cunningham

I saw. I conquered. Couldn't come.
-David Lodge

"Cyanide? Bitter almonds." He knew. How?
-Brian Bouldrey

Father died. Mother triumphed. I left.
-Mary Gaitskill

"You? Her? No dice, fat boy."
-Pinckney Benedict

Oh that? It's nothing. Not contagious.
-Augusten Burroughs

Mother's Day came, doubling Oedipus' pleasure.
-Bruce Benderson

Tossed remorselessly, whiffle balls sure hurt.
-JT LeRoy

As she fell, her mind wandered.
-Rebecca Miller

It's negative. Say hi to Mom.
-Ben Greenman

Horny professor. Failing coed. No tenure.
-'A Short History of Academia' by Sue Grafton

Shiva destroys Earth: "Well, that's that."
-AG Pasquella

Havana's no place for hockey, coach.
-Nicholas Weinstock


"Hemingway Challenge
25 of today's most influential writers offer original fiction in 6 words, no more, no less.

Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result: "For sale: baby shoes, never used." It's rumoured that Hemingway thought it his greatest work, and it's invariably offered as the model for what micro-fiction should aspire to. Stirred by this great masterwork, we asked 25 of today's most renowned writers to offer their own original six-word story. Some offered more than ten narratives in less than an hour's time, while others took weeks to labour over each of their six words. In spite of their economy, the above collection does not fail to deliver the same humour, drama, irony, and suspense found in some of literature's lengthier tomes. "

Black Book article
Fall 2004
Pages 132-133



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micro-fiction (my.kroh-FIK.shun) n. An extremely short literary work, typically no more than a few hundred words. Also: microfiction.


"BLACKBOOK MAG HIGHLIGHTS MICRO FICTION
The Fall 2004 No. 34 BlackBook, a "progressive culture" magazine, features original fiction in six words or less from 25 established writers, including John Updike, Rick Moody, Mary Gaitskill, Pinckney Benedict, and AM Homes. BlackBook deems this micro fiction the "Hemingway Challenge," in homage to Ernest Hemingway and his answer to a challenge to write a story in six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never used." For readers inspired by the Hemingway of old and the Hemingways of new; the "Hemingway Challenge" is also a contest; 10 winners to be published in a forthcoming BlackBook."


Said article with contest winners I will post in the near future, because I have not the magazine on me at this moment. But I would like to try a little micro-fiction myself. First Im going to try the 6-word story (Hemingway) challenge by writing my own in 6 words, then try to write a little more.

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