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What are some tips for writing microstories or flash fiction? Ive read some really bad ones, seems to be a hard genre to master.

>> No.10599775
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10599775

>>10599765
Condensed ambiguity.

>> No.10599789

>>10599765
Two shoes, pink for the girl
Empty, and unfulfilled waiting for the first step.
The left, and the right ready to take flight.

Tick tock, tick tock, and then,
With a rapid set of events
Step
Step
Crick
The girl thundered down the stairs.
And Thumped to the front

Now, warm and filled, they feel the thrill, and take leap to the air
And down
They come

Splash, free at last

>> No.10599796

>>10599775
what exactly is condensed ambiguity?

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>>10599796
You got it down pat. Good job.

>> No.10599814

>>10599775
Rubbish. Microstories are specific as fuck, theyre laser focused.

>> No.10599815

Condensed milk. Like, it is. Understand? He responded, and we never spoke again.

>> No.10599835

1 of these 2 shoes is left
& neither of them is free;
4 sale: memento of a stillbirth.

>> No.10599842

>>10599835
If only 1 is left what is right?

>> No.10599857

>>10599842
if one is left
the otter is right

>> No.10599858

>>10599857
Okay..
But if there is only a right, what is left??

>> No.10599992

>>10599858
a right alone should not be left alone but taken to the corresponding lonely left. a right not alone but with a left together should be both left together, not letting the left go right away nor the right eventually either.

>> No.10600002

>>10599992
No, Wrong.
I'm sorry.

If there is only a right, then nothing is left...

>> No.10600134

>>10600002
nothing is left to say about either shoe since where there is no right there can be ipso facto no right-and-left and hence no left either only a shoe whose rightness or otherwise will never be ascertained.

>> No.10600140

>>10600134
Yes.

But what is to the left, of the one shoe?
There is also no left, to the right

>> No.10600160

>>10600140
quite right:
nothing left
never worn.

>> No.10600167

>>10600160
This is our right,
To what is left,
All deformed

>> No.10600222

>>10600167
all the forms
I'm
left listing
to verify the
right wristing
of the dextrose
avoiding
sinister
plots.

>> No.10600227

>>10600222
The inner mourn
Time
Ticking, existing
To rectify the
Right hand twisting
Down and across
Pointing
Blistering
Thoughts

>> No.10600249

>>10600227
widdershins leftwise! cries the cobbler
leather-needle stuck in leather heart
hurriedly consumes the clockwork apple
and delicately demonstrates his art:
baby shoes.

>> No.10600259

>>10600249
Lederhosen weasel! Lies and sobber
Teathered knees dull, tucked to their soul
Repeatedly dusts and brooms his castle
And feveriously feathers out the tart:
Old man blues

>> No.10600341

>>10600259
stoats on the easel inked
with tardy feather pen
cheesecake on the castle stairs
laid by a fevered hen:
eat your greens.

>> No.10600371

>>10600341
Moats on the eastern basin
With bards weathered inn
Cheap plates, our muse grows thin
Paid by tempted fate
Glean, as steak

>> No.10600410

>>10600371
motes, shards, rival gardens
the hardly bothered win
freight capsules, honest work
a bartered dolphin fin:
glam asphalt.

>> No.10600415

>>10599765
Lydia Davis is the master at this.
Kafka also has some very short stories.

>> No.10600950

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