Unusually Short Stories

Unusually Short Stories

By Robert BruceSociety & CultureFiction
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Unusually Short Stories episodes

  • The Theory
    If her PhD in Literary Theory had taught her anything, it was that only dead writers write immortal books.
    1 min
  • The Elevator
    Stepping into the empty elevator shaft, his dream of becoming a writer was dashed in eleven hideous stories.
    1 min
  • The Phone Call
    Finding no way around the problem, she decided she'd let the boys down at the NSA record a phone call they'd never forget.
    1 min
  • The Bourbon
    The jihadists suspected that some dark magic had saved the writer. He figured it was the bourbon keeping him limber, and got back to typing.
    1 min
  • The Lounge
    He knew she carried a .38. He didn't know she'd drawn down on thirteen men in Kansas, Oregon, and Georgia. The lounge was about to get loud.
    1 min
  • The Extraction
    Tired of the endless bills and drilling, he asked the dentist to extract them all. Six and one half hours later, he was free.
    1 min
  • The Interrogation
    There were several reasons why she'd done it, but the three men interrogating her would not live long enough to discover them.
    1 min
  • The Killer
    The bestselling crime novel fell from the bored killer's hand. As if he, or anyone like him, needed a reason to open up someone’s neck.
    1 min
  • The Confession
    A famous writer found hanged in his Paris hotel room swung gently above his confession of plagiarism, presumably written in his own hand.
    1 min

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Filed to the Internet daily, from an undisclosed location near you. If you’re into Mamet, Chandler, or Houellebecq, this stuff might work for you. Good luck …