Tiny Tales

As a writer I enjoy playing with words and the idea of telling a whole story in as few words as possible has always been appealing to me, and quite challenging. This is not flash fiction, nor is it poetry. It's minimalist stories, tiny bites of tales. You could look at these as just what they are, or you can look further. Sometimes less is more. Sometimes words have differen meanings.

Here are some of the "tiniest" stories (if one can call them that) I've ever written...

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Once upon a time,
There was a storyteller
Who had no more stories to tell

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He came
From inside the house
But not before
It burnt to the ground

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Ouch, I said
But the hole was bigger
Than my bleeding heart

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The Darkness came and went
But she never moved or breathed
She remained
Waiting