Fiction told in very small compass, including flash fiction, flash prose, the feghoot pun story and the short story cycle. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes it as a very short piece, a humorous short story or a collection of linked short stories. The group sits within the Short, Lyric and Nonfiction Forms subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
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Histoires tragiques - Wikipedia
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a genre of French fiction in 16th-17th centuries
Kmart realism - Wikipedia
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a form of minimalist literature found in American short fiction
Short Story (Wikipedia)
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A short story is a piece of narrative fiction in written prose that can typically be read in a single sitting.
Vignette (literature) - Wikipedia
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a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time
Flash Fiction (Wikipedia)
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Flash fiction is a fiction narrative in the form of a very short piece of writing, which still offers a character arc or implies a larger story.
Flash prose - Wikipedia
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Flash prose, also known as flash literature, is brief creative writing, generally on the order of between 500 and 1500 words.
Feghoot - Wikipedia
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A feghoot (also known as a story pun or poetic story joke) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase), where the story contains sufficient context to recognize the punning humor.
Short-story cycle (Wikipedia)
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A short-story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of creating an enhanced or different experience when reading the group as a whole as opposed to its individual parts.
Facetia (Wikipedia)
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European literary genre from the Renaissance consisting of short humorous stories
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