Short, short stories; micro fiction; nano fiction... whatever you want to call a story that will fit onto a single side of paper, a screen, a matchbook, anywhere - so long as it's small
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I think you're right, I tried to find punctuation and didn't even notice I had the phrasing the wrong way round. That punctuation seems appropriate. *edits post*
Oh, that's cool. I don't think I've ever read that before. I would have said that was poetry but I don't know what strictly defines what is or isn't a poem/story.
Shatner has actually had a few SF novels published (ghost written or not I don't know). Some Star Trek ones, obviously, but he had another book series as well. Haven't actually read them though.
I'll willfully disagree with you, sir. To class Hemingway's story as on the prosaic rather than poetic side of the threshold suggests that there is some kind of quantifiable line between the two and that each piece of text can be categorised according to its quantitative use of such qualitative rhetorical techniques. Bearing this in mind - and assuming that it would be difficult if not impossible to reach a consensus on one, let alone more, texts, using this method - isn't the line between poetry and prose more of a structural one, concerned with form rather than content? Otherwise the epithet "poetic" implies a superiority to the comparatively formless, bland, functional prose (of course the word "prosaic" has a pejorative nuance, but etymologically it is presumably the counterpoint to "poetic"). While the instructions included with your Paracetamol or your course handbook can be described as nothing other than prose, according to this argument it would be their form, situation and physical manifestation which qualified them as
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Hehehe... That'll keep me smiling all day...
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It's quite self-contained though, it doesn't really evoke much outside of itself.
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For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
although I'm not 100% sure about the punctuation. It has more of a build up of expectations that way.
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Oh, that's cool. I don't think I've ever read that before.
I would have said that was poetry but I don't know what strictly defines what is or isn't a poem/story.
"William Shatner" heheheh *snarf snarf*
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