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Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer

✍ Scribed by Robert Swartwood

Book ID
111090184
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
33 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780393340228
ASIN
B0045Y23ZW

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✦ Synopsis

A story collection that proves less is more.

The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's possibly apocryphal six-word story--"For Sale: baby shoes, never worn"--to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them "hint fiction" because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events. Spare and evocative, these stories prove that a brilliantly honed narrative can be as startling and powerful as a story of traditional length. The 125 gemlike stories in this collection come from such best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers.

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