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  2. Sketch story - Wikipedia

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    A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot.The genre was invented after the 16th century in England, as a result of increasing public interest in realistic depictions of "exotic" locales. [1]

  3. Duanju - Wikipedia

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    Each episode is very short, lasting only around one minute. The total duration is comparable to that of a movie. To facilitate viewing on mobile devices, Duanju are directly produced in a vertical screen. Short dramas are sometimes adapted into interactive movie games. [1]

  4. A Double-Threaded Life - Wikipedia

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    The script for A Double-Threaded Life derived from actors' suggestions—the actors being the people of Hinton, West Virginia, a city of less than 3,000 in rural Summers County, West Virginia. One such actor was a local fisherman who improvised a scene based on a short script about fishing, a favorite pastime in that part of Appalachia.

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    The claim of Hemingway's authorship originates in an unsubstantiated anecdote about a wager among him and other writers. Hemingway is said to have claimed he could write a short story only six words long. This attribution was in a book by Peter Miller called Get Published! Get Produced!: A Literary Agent's Tips on How to Sell Your Writing.

  6. List of Very Short Introductions books - Wikipedia

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    Very Short Introductions is a series of books published by Oxford University Press. ... Writing and Script: Andrew Robinson: 27 August 2009: Literature 209: Communism:

  7. Drabble - Wikipedia

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    Published science fiction writers who have written drabbles include Brian Aldiss and Gene Wolfe (both of whom contributed to The Drabble Project), [4] Lois McMaster Bujold (whose novel Cryoburn finishes with a sequence of five drabbles, each told from the point of view of a different character), [6] [7] and Jake Bible (whose novel Dead Mech was written entirely in drabble format).

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  9. Flash fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s flash fiction was referred to as the "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine, and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story. [8] Somerset Maugham was a notable proponent, with his Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (1936) being an early collection.