Category:
Literary Fiction
Anthology of stories told by in a single sentence, stories that run from 100 to 2000 words and cover all kinds of subjects, some fiction, some non-fiction, some happy, some sad, some weird, some plain out crazy, some suspenseful, and all of them "unfinished" in that they can be made longer by a number of simple methods, including adding modifiers, introductory phrases and clauses, a single word, and… (67-word sentence. See what I mean?)
An amazing book of 77 short stories (100-2000 words) told in a single sentence by 43 authors from around the world, some beginners, some professionals, all writers who enjoy a good story and love to discover new ways to write because…
Writing without pause, sometimes called "word-doodling" is an art that uses all manner of grammatical tools, modifiers, phrases and clauses, connecting words, and punctuation that eschews periods and semi-colons and probably over-uses commas, ellipses, parenthses, colons, m-dashes and… lots of words like "and, but, if, because, yet, whenever, or…"
Still, one of the prime results of one-sentence writing is to reduce stress. If you've ever sat through a dull (D-U-L-L) meeting, waited for an appoinntment, lingered on a park bench to blow off steam, you quickly pick up this writing style to get rid of the angst and restore calm to the soul, which is rather like a kid coming home from school and rattling off the entire day for Mom or Dad to share, or like a victim of a traumatic event spewing a string of words to describe what happened, or you when something special has happened and you want to share…
And yet there is still more because many of the stories in this book were born of dreams, the kind of story-telling that stays with you after you waken and won't dislodge itself from the brain until you sit down and write it out or disclose it to you therapist, since these stories have more to tell than would meet the ear on first telling, and all you have to do is take another look, go back over the dream and notice the words you use, the way you use them, and perhaps subliminal or alternate meanings attached to them, which often can tell a story by itself and…
You see? All of these paragraphs contain. single sentence, and you'll notice that they get longer as you progress with the reading. Words are FUN. Writing them is more FUN. And reading them back is even MORE FUN! Try it for yourself.
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