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  2. Flash fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s flash fiction was referred to as the "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine, and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story. [8] Somerset Maugham was a notable proponent, with his Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (1936) being an early collection.

  3. For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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    t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1][2] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as ...

  4. Microcosmic God - Wikipedia

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    "Microcosmic God" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Theodore Sturgeon.Originally published in April 1941 in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, it was recognized as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the Nebula Awards by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1970, and was named as one of the best science fiction stories in polls by Analog ...

  5. El emigrante (micro story) - Wikipedia

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    El emigrante" has become one of the most celebrated and frequently cited of microfiction stories. [9] It is wrongly considered as the shortest story in the Spanish language. [10] [a] A much shorter story, included in La mitad del diablo (2006) is Juan Pedro Aparicio's "Luis XIV", whose whole text includes a single word: "Yo".

  6. Minisaga - Wikipedia

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    Minisaga. A minisaga, mini saga or mini-saga is a short story based on a long story. It should contain exactly 50 words, plus a title of up to 15 characters. However, the title requirement is not always enforced and sometimes eliminated altogether. Minisagas are alternately known as microstories, ultra-shorts stories, or fifty-word stories.

  7. History of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    History of Microsoft. Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment ...

  8. The Electric Ant - Wikipedia

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    In 2010 Marvel Comics adapted "The Electric Ant" as a limited series. The comic books were produced by writer David Mack (Daredevil) and French artist Pascal Alixe (Ultimate X-Men), with covers provided by artist Paul Pope (THB).[2] The story inspired the song of the same name by British progressive rock band Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate.

  9. Black holes in fiction - Wikipedia

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    [3] [28] John Varley's 1978 short story "The Black Hole Passes" depicts an outpost in the Oort cloud being imperilled by a small black hole. [3] [10] [29] In Stephen Baxter's 1993 short story "Pilot", a spaceship extracts energy from a rotating black hole's ergosphere to widen its event horizon and cause a pursuer to fall into it.

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