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This reminds me of 'El Dinosaurio,' the shortest Spanish narrative: "Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí." English: "When he woke up, the dino
by sebleon 9y ago
This reminds me of 'El Dinosaurio,' the shortest Spanish narrative:
"Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí."
English:
"When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there."
- zoul 9y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction
- personlurking 9y agoI like the idea of flash non-fiction, but I never seem able to find much about it. Not one-liners, rather in the 3-5 paragraph range, which might be understood as being an article (ex. newspaper/magazine), only articles are usually longer. I'd love to find an example of a media outlet that does such a thing, albeit with mid/high-brow content.
- cousin_it 9y agohttp://sixsentences.blogspot.ch/ http://sixsentences.blogspot.ch/ is pretty good sometimes.
- thriftwy 9y agoI once had a directory with huge number of fiction books, and I've sorted it by size asc. Most of the first few dozens of entries were amusing.
- juliendorra 9y ago365 tomorrows might be the right length for you: https://365tomorrows.com/ https://365tomorrows.com/ (only science fiction)
- ManuelKiessling 9y agoWhich in turn reminds me of Hemingway's shortest short story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.'
- jwilk 9y agoThere's no evidence that it was Hemingway who wrote it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_wo...