The criteria were, in a nutshell: write short-short stories which are 500 to 1000 words in length (I won't reveal the subject matter yet); write the story in sentences that do not call attention to themselves with flowery words and ornate phrasing, but at the same time, use memorable images or metaphors in each story, and interesting connective ideas.
I don't know if I succeeded too well with the last two criteria, "memorable images and metaphors" and "interesting connective ideas." Also, the structure--I worked on the last story today because I sensed that it went emotionally dead towards the middle, and was also suffering from a faulty structure (the two problems were intertwined). But have I really thought through the structure of all of these pieces?
So now the question is: should I read through all of them one more time?
The thought of doing that is a bit painful...but I might.
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