MICRO FICTION

"Jesus could remove it, though. He'd fly it like a kite, the sun on a string. He'd skip it across the lake and it would always return. He'd even work it into his juggling routine, pieces of fruit landing on a dazzling plate, ta-dah!"
—pages 40-41, Micro Fiction edited by Michael Stern, from the short story "The Halo" by Michael McFee

Each story had to be 300 words or less. Succinct. Compact. Sculpted. Each word hand-selected. Pampered. Nurtured. Allowed to crawl, toddle, walk on its own.

Each story also had to work. Otherwise it defeated the purpose.

Some almost skirt the 300 word limit. Some are a few brief sentences, barely a paragraph.

To review individual stories would damage their brevity, their fragility. Smother their narratives.

These are short stories for the distracted. Those of short attention span. On the move. Elsewhere.