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In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied origins, from the short-short to nanofiction, with examples that include vignettes, prose poems, character sketches, fables, lists, twist stories, surrealism, and metafiction. The authors range from the famous, such as Colette and Borges, to today's voices, like Roxane Gay and Bruce Holland Rogers. A writer and longtime creative writing teacher, Galef also shows how flash fiction skills translate to other types of writing. Brevity is an indispensable resource for anyone working in this increasingly popular form. For more information, see davidgalef.com/brevity.

Flash fiction --- Micro fiction --- Microfiction --- Short-short fiction --- Sudden fiction --- Very short fiction --- Short stories --- Authorship. --- Technique.

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The latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose and poetry today. It features five sections written from five distinct narrative viewpoints.

English poetry --- Short stories, English. --- English prose literature. --- English short stories --- English fiction --- English literature --- short fiction --- anthology --- prose --- english literature --- poetry --- stories

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Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her ability to produce material that would fit the mainstream periodical fiction market as it evolved across almost half a century, many of them also contain early incarnations of characters, storylines, conversations, and settings that she would rework for inclusion in her novels and collections of linked short stories.In Twice upon a Time, the third volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, Benjamin Lefebvre collects and discusses over two dozen stories from across Montgomery's career as a short fiction writer, many of them available in book form for the first time. The volume offers a rare glimpse into Montgomery's creative process in adapting her periodical work for her books, which continue to fascinate readers all over the world.

Short stories, Canadian. --- Montgomery, Lucy Maud --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian. --- Anne of Green Gables. --- Canadian literature and culture. --- Lucy Maud Montgomery. --- Prince Edward Island. --- gender studies. --- periodical studies. --- popular culture. --- short fiction. --- short stories. --- women’s writing. --- Montgomery, L. M.

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This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Their authors live not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the US. Short stories in this volume display a vast spectrum of subgenres, from grotesque absurdist stories to lyrical essays, from realistic narratives to fantastic parables. Taken together, they display rich and complex cultural and intellectual reality of contemporary Russia, in which political, social, and ethnic conflicts of today coexist with themes and characters resonating with classical literature, albeit invariably twisted and transformed in an unpredictable way. Most of texts in this volume appear in English for the first time. 21 may be useful for college courses but will also provide exciting reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russia.

Russian prose literature --- Russian literature --- Aleksandr Ilichevsky. --- Aleksey Tsvetkov Jr. --- Arkady Babchenko. --- Denis Osokin. --- Elena Dolgopyat. --- Evgeny Shklovsky. --- Kirill Kobrin. --- Lara Vapnyar. --- Leonid Kostyukov. --- Linor Goralik. --- Margarita Khemlin. --- Maria Boteva. --- Marianna Geide. --- Nikolai Baitov. --- Nikolai Kononov. --- Pavel Pepperstein. --- Polina Barskova. --- Russia. --- Russian culture. --- Russian fiction. --- Russian literature. --- Russian short stories. --- Russian writers. --- Sergei Soloukh. --- Short stories. --- Stanislav Lvovsky. --- Valery Votrin. --- Vladimir Sorokin. --- contemporary Russia. --- contemporary fiction. --- diversity in writing. --- early 21st century. --- fiction. --- literature in translation. --- prose. --- short fiction. --- twenty first century. --- twenty-first century. --- Russian prose literature. --- Short stories, Russian --- Short stories, Russian. --- 2000-2099.

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This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to ";write but little for periodicals hereafter."; In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description-the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Twain, Mark, --- Twain, Mark --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- تواين، مارک --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- a duel prevented. --- advice to the unreliable on church going. --- american authors. --- american literature. --- an apology repudiated. --- buffalo express. --- carson city. --- classics. --- connubial bliss. --- dog controversy. --- galaxy. --- gallant fireman. --- hannibal. --- how to cure a cold. --- humor. --- journalism. --- juvenilia. --- literary criticism. --- mark twain. --- more ghosts. --- nevada. --- our stock remarks. --- pah utes. --- poems. --- religion. --- samuel clemens. --- satire. --- short fiction. --- short stories. --- social commentary. --- spanish mine. --- speeches. --- those blasted children.