Writing the Very Short Story John Dufresne. Norton, $15.95 trade paper ... These prompts are supplemented by well-chosen quotations and full samples of works by other authors, ...

Don't tell John Dufresne you don't have time to read. In fact, don't tell him you don't have time to write. Instead, spend a little time with his new book, Flash! Writing the Very Short Story. You ...

Very short stories can get very, very short and still be good. The most famous example (supposedly written by Ernest Hemingway) draws a little sigh with only six words; it's a sales ad.

Lydia Davis, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, has been publishing short stories utterly unlike anyone else’s for almost 40 years. Sometimes as brief as a sentence or ...

A genius came to Brown on Thursday. Lydia Davis, recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius' fellowship and innovator of the very short story, gave a reading of her recent work in the McCormack Family Theater.

Susie Merry wrote a sweet story, “I ate some chocolate,” and John Brooks served up a similar theme for readers’ consumption: “I ate some cannoli!” “I got over it,” wrote Shaka ...

Break It Down, by Lydia Davis. Davis is a master of the very short story, and the collection that made her name, Break It Down, includes such works as the four-sentence “What She Knew,” where ...