Jul. 1, 2016 "Murder on the North Saskatchewan": I was going through my Professional Writing papers and I found this short story written by Thomas Wharton in the Edmonton Journal on Sept. 22, 2007.
I looked it up on the internet and am unable to find it. It is a good short story. It is chapter 1 of the Saturday Serial Thriller.
Dan Canossi and other micro- stories: I took Creative Non- Fiction in Professional Writing. Here is an example:
One day Don Canossi thought he was dying.
He stole a melon and ran for the sea.
The police caught him before he got there
and he lived.
This was back in 2007.
Sept. 7, 2023: I don't know if it is Dan or Don. I looked it up and can't find anything to see which name is correct.
I looked it up and lead to Wikipedia:
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity.[1] There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as fifty-three[citation needed] words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.
Terms[edit]
Many terms for this category exist, including micro fiction, micro narrative, micro-story, postcard fiction, short short, short short story, and sudden fiction, though distinctions are sometimes drawn among some of these terms.
For example, sometimes 1000 words is considered the cutoff between "flash fiction" and the slightly longer short story "sudden fiction".
The terms "micro fiction" and "micro narrative" are sometimes defined as below 300 words,[2] and include these diminutive subcategories: the drabble (100 words), nanofiction (55 words), and Twitter fiction, aka twitterature (140 characters, or about 23 words).
The term "short short story" was the most common term from the early 20th century until about 2000, when it was overtaken by "flash fiction."[3]
One of the first known usages of the term "flash fiction" in reference to the literary style was the 1992 anthology Flash Fiction: Seventy-Two Very Short Stories.
Editor James Thomas stated that the editors' definition of a "flash fiction" was a story that would fit on two facing pages of a typical digest-sized literary magazine.[4]
In China the style is frequently called a "smoke long" or "palm-sized" story, with the comparison being that the story should be finished before the reader could finish smoking a cigarette.[5]
Oct. 1, 2016 "Print pullback": Today I found this article by James Bradshaw and Christine Dobby in the Globe and Mail. It talks about Rogers Media closing down some magazines like Canadian Business, Flare, MoneySense, and Sportsnet Magazine. The websites are still there.
This reminds me of the time back in 2007 when I was in Distilled Prose class. We have to write about a word and I chose magazine. There are so many magazines that are closing down, and only have the website.
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