I'm calling my stories "short-short stories," for lack of a better term...I need to find a better term.
"Flash fiction" has become a popular label for any story under three pages long, but I don't much like it. It might be okay for a two-line poem, or Hemingway's shortest story ever (how does it go: "For Sale: baby shoes, never used." Something like that). But it's not great for a two-page story, which can't be read "in a flash."
Coffee stories? (They can definitely be read in the time it takes the average person to drink a cup of coffee.) But that would be too confusing, it sounds like "coffee table stories" which makes one think of coffee table books...actually I like coffee table books and think all books belong on coffee tables not bookshelves...but that's another subject.
I'd like to come up with a better term. But for now..it's perhaps more urgent to come up with a title for the whole collection. After finishing three more stories I will weed out the bad ones, edit them all one more time, then start sending them out. So I need to have a better working title.
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