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Short-short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers.

shortshortshort.com, April 2008

By Steven H Silver ⋅ May 5, 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 […]

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shortshortshort.com, March 2008

By Steven H Silver ⋅ April 11, 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 […]

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shortshortshort.com, Jan/Feb 2008

By Steven H Silver ⋅ March 15, 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 […]

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shortshortshort.com, Nov/Dec 2007

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ January 2, 2008

Pushcart and Nebula Award-winning author Bruce Holland Rogers gives subscribers a good deal: for ten dollars a year, they receive (by email) three stories a month. As Rogers says, “Thirty-six stories for ten dollars. That’s about twenty-eight cents a story.” They’re short stories, rarely longer than 2000 words, but in today’s nanosecond attention span […]

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Shortshortshort.com, Sept/Oct 2007

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ December 31, 2007

Bruce Holland Rogers, the creative force behind shortshortshort.com, served up a mixed sextet of ultrashort stories for September and October, 2007. Here you’ll find some of Rogers’s best work, as well as some less-than-stellar tales.
“Stoppage” is not one of Rogers’s clearer stories. A cat sitting on sheet music provides the inspiration for a metaphysical digression […]

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