What's the shortest story you've liked? - rec.arts.sf.written

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Gary R. Schmidt

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From: "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschm...@acm.org>

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:01:09 +1100

Local: Thurs, Oct 29 2009 1:01 pm

Subject: Re: What's the shortest story you've liked?

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cryptoguy wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2:45 am, darwinist <darwin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can a 100 word story be good? More to the point, have you seen it
>> done? What about 200 words?

>> Micro-fiction is an interesting idea, and there are some interesting
>> examples, but it's hard to think of a really good one.

>> Would be grateful if any could be pointed out to me.

> Reading the thread title before I opened any messages, the one that
> came to me instantly was 'Day Million' by Fred Pohl. But you guys are
> going much shorter than its 300-odd words.

Two of my favourites:

"The Sign at the End of the Universe", by Duane Ackerson
<ROT13>
(Abj, lbh unir gb cergraq gur arkg ovg vf cevagrq hcfvqr-qbja, bxnl?)

Guvf Raq Hc.
</ROT13>

And the other:

"Science Fiction for Telepaths", by Michael E. Blake.
<ROT13>
"Nu, lbh xabj jung V zrna."
</ROT13>

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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