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Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing. — Evan Adam Ang

Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand. — Judy Budnitz

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic. — Janet Fitch

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision. — Louise Bogan

A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss? — Mary Papas

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for. — Walter Kirn

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better — Mary Papas

I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me. — Siobhan Davis

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet". — Christopher J. Pumphrey

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link

Dear family,

I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine — Koh Choon Hwee

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy

We're still looking for the Messiah, so I usually invite myself over to someone's house who's found him. — Dan Salerno

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable. — Siobhan Davis

I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way. — Siobhan Davis

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz — William L.K.

Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment. — O Thiam Chin

He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him. — John Howard Matthews

I am unbelievably nervous.
It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo. — Siobhan Davis

The dictator's black hand had
made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons — Zoe S. Roy

She got injun fire in her blood, as I hear tell it, and it seem to me Lucy about ripe to snap a crack in that jumping bean she call a head. — Ojo Blacke

Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold. — J.E. Cross

You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution. — Judy Budnitz

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story. — Ken Liu

What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time. — Judy Budnitz

It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep. — Siobhan Davis

Don't ruin a good story with the facts. — Jerry Guarino

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story) — Isaac Asimov

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk. — You Jin

As a writer, I marinate, speculate, and hibernate. — Trisha Sugarek

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.' — Gillian Jacobs

Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop. — John Hopkins

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature. — Lawrence Block

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin. — Isabelle Hardesty

My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion. — Petra Kidd

I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse. — Philip Palmer

I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me. — Siobhan Davis

When I am perfect, I will be allowed to leave. — Damien Angelica Walters

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. — Deborah Eisenberg

Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that. — John Hopkins

They've made her something else now. — Damien Angelica Walters

I told you. I've been watching." She twirled, her arms outstretched. "Watching, watching, watching. — A.F. Stewart

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out. — Kurt Vonnegut

An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms. — Siobhan Davis

She would keep playing the role as long as the audience fell for it — Mary Papas

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people. — George Saunders

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon

He let out a short laugh. You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe? — James Dashner

Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven. — R. Barri Flowers

Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius. — James L. Rubart

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that. — Ann Leckie

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better. — Alexandar Tomov

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth. — John Hopkins

Violet carved her hate into her flesh one name at a time. — Damien Angelica Walters

While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it. — Siobhan Davis

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think. — Paul W.S. Bowler

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor! — Christina Scalise

The only man she ever loved. And hated. — Mary Papas

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report — Bangambiki Habyarimana

(From Slices) Her skirt's so short, she's advertisin' the promised land. Somebody oughta slap her naked, then set a match to that git-up. — Savannah

You know Dahmer was a cannibal. You think he was a zombie?"
Tom smirked. "I'm no expert, but not all cannibals are zombies. — H.D. Timmons

God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good! — MFR

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. — Yelle Hughes

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last. — A.M. Willard

An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. — Karen Azinger

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar. — Steve Earle

What happens when I click this-- will Facebook know about it? — Michael Filimowicz

I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold. (Humans) — Robert Emmett

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills. — John Howard Matthews

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. — Ron Carlson

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us. — V.S. Kemanis

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher. — Henry James

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. — Irwin Shaw

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

Ariana strikes me as the type of girl who is attracted to authenticity. — Siobhan Davis

All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward. — Karen Azinger

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold. — Stephen Harker

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting? — LHandLG

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it
love yourself — Kurt Vonnegut

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights) — Robert Silverberg

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde