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Since January 2002, for just ten dollars U.S. a year (twelve Canadian, ten euro, or six pounds sterling) subscribers have been receiving short-short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers in their email boxes. Most of these readers must like what they're getting, since the majority renew. Stories go out three times a month, and they are an unpredictable mix of literary fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, mysteries, and work that is hard to classify.
Thirty-six stories for ten dollars. That's about twenty-eight cents a story.
Subscription stories are between 200 and 2,500 words long (with rare exceptions). Most of the stories distributed so far have been between 500 and 1500 words. Bruce's ideal is to send a story that readers can enjoy in a minute or two.
The stories arrive as unformatted e-mail text, which makes it easy to read them on a variety of devices. Paying subscribers are allowed to forward stories to other readers (although distribution by those recipients is prohibited...unless they subscribe).
Rogers is an award-winning writer (Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker, etc.), and many of the subscription stories have gone on to appear in print in such magazines and anthologies as The Sun, Realms of Fantasy, Descant, Analog, and Polyphony. But subscribers read them first!
One subscription story, "Don Ysidro," has won the 2004 World Fantasy Award for the best short fiction work of fantasy published in the English language for 2004!
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New! Short-short stories in French, Bulgarian, and Chinese!
Readers who don't know Bruce's work can read some sample short-shorts at the following sites:
"The Djinn Who Lives Between Night and Day"
"Don Ysidro" (Word Fantasy Award for short story, 2004)
"The Bullfrog and His Shadows"
Gift subscriptions given by subscribers are $5 ($6 Can, 5 euro, 3 pounds) apiece. With each story, the recipient's subscription date information will also include a line, "Your subscription is a gift from...," reminding the recipient of your gift.
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Also, if you can't afford a subscription at full price, just say so. I'm happy to grant a 50% discount upon request.
Still not sure if you'd enjoy the stories or like reading them as email? Then ask for a free trial. You'll receive stories and, eventually, a bill. Pay only if you want the subscription to continue for the rest of the year. E-mail your request to Bruce@sff.net.
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"What is a short short story? A sudden fiction? A flash fiction? Definitions are sometimes made by arbitrarily choosing a story length. For example, a flash fiction is a story of fewer than 750 words. But my favorite definition of the short-short is from Kate Wilhelm's introduction to my collection of short-shorts, Flaming Arrows. Among the ways that we can know the house of fiction: The reader can be invited in to tour the rooms and search the closets. That's a novel. Or the reader may be invited to stand outside at a window and look into one particular room. That's a short story. Or the reader may have to kneel at a keyhole and peer in to see just enough to know what's going on in a part of that room. That's the short-short story, the most compressed of narratives and the one that demands the most of readers." - Bruce Holland Rogers
Bruce writes about his writing process---and about some individual stories---on his Live Journal blog.
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