shortstories

• A short story is a work of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting
• Simplified, without full backstories, single plot, ambigous and open endings, complex understanding of reality and human behavoir
• Literacy devices: tone, dictionary/word choice, forshadowing, point of view, sentence structure, metaphor, imagery
• Anton Chekhov is founder of the modern short story
• Fabel: a tale that provides a moral lesson, often using animals, mythical creatures, forces of nature or inanimate objects come to life
• Flash fiction: a story between 5 to 2000 words that lacks traditional plot structures of character development, and is often characterized by a surprise or twiste of fate
• Mini saga: a type of micro-fiction (< 300 words) using exactly 50 words to tell a story
• Vignette: A descriptive scene or defining moment that does not contain a complete plot or narrative, but reveals an important detail about character or idea
• Modernism: experimenting with narrative form, style and chronology to capture te experience of an individual
• Postmodernism: using fragmentation, paradox or unreliable narrators to explore the relationship between author, reader and text
• Magical realism: Combining realistic narrative or setting with elements of surrealism, dream or fantasy
• Minimalism: writing characterized by brevity, straightforward language, and a lack of plot resolutions