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Fun-Reading: World's Shortest Stories!
Shampa Iftakhar:
Rafi:
The word "dinosaur" is frightening!!!!!!!!!!! ??
Even the story might be funny.
A.S. Rafi:
Shampa apu,
This is the magic of the story. It becomes full of fun, horror, suspense in a single line :D
A.S. Rafi:
Story 3:
The science fiction writer, Frederic Brown, is also credited with writing one of the shortest stories ever, though in truth his 1948 story, Knock, goes on to develop a plot from the story that is introduced thus:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door . . .
A.S. Rafi:
Story No:3 is complete in itself. Knock inspired a response by Ron Smith, who gave his story a tongue-in-cheek title that was almost as long as the story itself. He called it A Horror Story Shorter by One Letter than the Shortest Story Ever Told, and it goes like this:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a lock on the door . . .
Source: www.writersdock.com
A.S. Rafi:
World's most concise short story writer Lydia Davis wins Booker International Prize 2013.
The influential American writer accepted the £60,000 honour, which is presented every two years to a living, non-UK author for a body of work published in English, at a ceremony held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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