From the humorous to the bleak, the dystopian to the dog-filled, there's a story for every occasion, and an occasion for every story. With stories told in 140 characters or less, A Small Fiction delivers brilliant, yet brief tales destined to stick with readers long after they turn the page. Through the genre lenses of science fiction, fantasy, contemporary fiction, folklore, and humour, each of these illustrated micro-fictions is a peephole that reveals a bigger world.
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"Let's have an adventure," she said. "We're on one," he said. "What kind?" "Every kind. But we only get one go." "Oh! Then let's begin!"
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(@AndrewsMcMeel, 6 October 2020, 224 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've never read twitter length fiction before. I don't think it's for me. I really don't think you can get as much from a 140 character tweet that you can in a 500 page story. I've read fiction that uses twitter to convey a story across multiple tweets and this works well. I just felt a story contained in a single tweet falls a little flat at times. I liked the illustration scattered throughout. These were of a good quality and worked well. I would have liked to see more. The stories, however, never quite worked for me. The stories are written in a very simple style and to be honest don't have much to depth to them. I didn't realise the stories were really aimed at children. I read children's fiction, but this fell short for me.
