shortshortshort.com, April 2008
Bruce Holland Rogers’s short shorts for April consist of three stories, the longest of which clocks in at just over 700 words.
In “Dear Lisa,” an advice columnist realizes that despite all the advice she has struggled to give over the years, in general, her readers aren’t really looking for advice but merely for entertainment. She […]
shortshortshort.com, March 2008
Men suffering from a midlife crisis is a thematic cliché, but in “The Midlife Forecast for Men,” one of the three March, 2008, shortshortshort.com offerings, Bruce Holland Rogers takes the cliché and adds humor to it by reporting on a midlife crisis in the guise of a television weather report. Rather than look at […]
Continue Readingshortshortshort.com, Jan/Feb 2008
In “One,” the first shortshortshort.com story of January, 2008, Bruce Holland Rogers presents a video game with a purpose greater than simple entertainment. While this idea has been used before, for instance in the 1984 film, The Last Starfighter, in “One,” Rogers is trying to set the stage for something more complex than simply […]
Continue ReadingAn Alternate History of the 21st Century by William Shunn
The story that opens William Shunn’s collection, An Alternate History of the 21st Century, is “From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left,” which was originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1993 and set in 2009, with part taking place in 2021. This short story, which […]
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