Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories by Jerome Stern (Editor)

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  • Pub. Date: August 1996
  • 128pp
  • Sales Rank: 106,205

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    • Pub. Date: August 1996
    • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
    • Format: Paperback, 128pp
    • Sales Rank: 106,205

    Synopsis

    The World's Best Short-Short Fictions in a Big, Little Book that you could probably carry in your Pocket.

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    Biography

    Jerome Stern, a professor of English and popular culture, is the author of an acclaimed book on writing, Making Shapely Fiction. His incisive monologues are regularly heard on National Public Radio.

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    Apple Pieby WTVCrimeDawg

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    September 28, 2009: Micro Fiction is a nice collection of modern-day American fiction, though many of the stories left me unsatisfied, like a joke without a punchline. The stories are brief enough to live and die within new-millennium time-constraints, and some of the bizarre messages leave a lasting impression. They are remarkable for their pithiness and power, a crash course in American culture oozing with apple pie.

    Micro Fiction meets the time constraints of a fast-paced, multitasking, computer-savvy, twenty-first century lifestyle. Times are changing. The world is at our fingertips. We pledge our allegiances to time management and multitasking. Novels are too long, so literature is changing as well. America has Attention Deficit Disorder, and Micro Fiction is our Ritalin.

    Micro Fiction is to the novel like McDonalds' Value Menu is to the family dinner. In a country that values fast-food, fast cars, and fast service, Micro Fiction is like pulling up to a Barnes & Noble drive-thru window and ordering some fast-fiction. "Would you like some fries with that fiction?" she asks.

    "Apple pie," I reply. Micro Fiction is America's new-millennium, drive-thru novel. Apple Pie is the Specialty of the Day. Welcome to quintessential American fiction.

    I Also Recommend: Sudden Fiction International, Sudden Fiction (Continued), New Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Sudden Fiction.

    Micro Fictionby Anonymous

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    April 23, 2006: I really enjoyed this book. It was great to have a variety of stories to choose from. I enjoyed some more than others, but I am definitely glad that I read them all. Each of them had a different style and I loved it. Great book