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Originally Posted by anamardoll
But definitely give me "The Yellow Wallpaper" over "Moby Dick" any day of the week. 
Short stories are very difficult because you basically have to convey most of the same information as a "regular" story in a very limited word budget. Every word choice has to be meaningful and economical in the extreme. I don't write short stories myself, but I do admire people who can pull them off well. It's not easy to write a good short story. |
I've just read "The Yellow Wallpaper", and I admit it's interesting. The writing stile reminds me of stories by Kelly Link that I've read a couple of years ago.
But the article mentioned flash fiction, which aren't just short stories, but "very short short stories". I just don't trust that you can have something that can be qualified as literature and be shorter than some jokes. On the other hand, there is
this.