coolestguyever on 25 August 2008
| stof said: @coolestguy - you do know what a short story is don't you? That one was considerably shorter than most. Here's what Wikipedia has to say Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to be read it in one sitting, a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846). Other definitions place the maximum word length at 7,500 words. In contemporary usage, the term short story most often refers to a work of fiction no longer than 20,000 words and no shorter than 1,000. Stories less than 1,000 words are usually referred to either as "short short fiction" or "short shorts." I'd love to post some of my favourite short stories, but some of them are far too long for a forum post. Instead I'll just recommend that everyone read some Kafka. Metamorphasis and In the Penal Colony are my favourites, though they may leave many people scratching their heads as to what the hell they're about. |
I was under the impression short shorts were:
I had no idea they had to do with stories
