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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a... (more)

There are no doors on a cocoon

by Lou Rera

A wise-cracking bird, dysfunctional relationships and workplace fiascos. Ordinary people just stumbling through their lives in search for the meaning of anything in a world that's been flattened by apathy. "There are no doors on a cocoon" paves the mind with aberrant, often poignant behavior. This collection of flash fiction by Lou Rera is a caustic look at humans from the seedier side of existence.

5 minute mysteries

by Kenneth J. Weber

Thirty-seven cases of murder and mayhem you can solve in under five minutes!