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Also by Robert Swartwood:

Hint Fiction, November 2010
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HINT FICTION
By: Robert Swartwood

An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer

W. W. Norton & Company
November 2010
On Sale: November 1, 2010
188 pages
ISBN: 0393338460
EAN: 9780393338461
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Fiction Family Life

A story collection that proves less is more. The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's possibly apocryphal six-word story—"For Sale: baby shoes, never worn"—to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them "hint fiction" because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events. Spare and evocative, these stories prove that a brilliantly honed narrative can be as startling and powerful as a story of traditional length. The 125 gemlike stories in this collection come from such best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers.

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