I'm more and more drawn to Sudden Fiction. It's a form ranging from 1-4 pages, with Flash, Micro, and Nano Fiction ranging even shorter. Initially, my sense was that it takes time to develop literature, elicit connection, emotion, epiphany and shorter fiction was the lazy way out for the Twitter-age...but these stories have changed my mind. They start in medias res, opening with the heart of the action, and delving deeper, and deeper to the strange core of human desires and interactions. I've never read a collection as creative or bizarre in form AND content....a lover turning from human to amphibian, a friend's arm being cut off by a train, breaking up over a missing jigsaw puzzle...but somehow, these wild circumstances exemplify even more human nature's age-old drive for paradoxes: solitude/connection, novelty/familiarity, nostalgia/amnesia, fantasy/reality.
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