Tiny Stories

by Lucy Duggan, Pavlína Lörinczová (Illustrator)

You want to cut a long story short. You want to cut it even shorter. Cut the part about the way the light fell on the empty plate. Or cut everything else, and leave that. Skip to the bit where John and Mary die. Cut the intro, cut the middle. Cut the plot, and leave the subplot.

You want a loveless story, a story about what happens in the wings while romance is plodding along on stage.

You want a love story, and you want it to cut to the heart of the matter, and leave out the part with the unconvincing beautiful doctor, or just tell us why he was so unconvincing and forget the rest.

You want what everyone wants: a story that’s short enough to tell in one breath and tiny enough to display in place of a diamond on the engagement ring in your facebook photo.

Tiny stories are literature for people who want to cut a long story short.

46 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2019

About the author

Lucy Duggan grew up in Warwickshire, Yorkshire, London and Somerset. She is now working on a PhD in Czech and German literature at Oxford University, but when she has the chance, she likes to wander around Prague, Moravia or East Germany. In Oxford, she regularly performs her poetry and prose at the Catweazle Club.

Reviews

[Aňa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect little thing to warm you up on a gloomy December day. My favourite story was one about a woman woman who had wonderful dreams about her man ("better than life ever was") whenever they were apart...so that eventually " [s]he began to find reasons to send him away, or to plan her own trips, alone. She only needed to see his face once a year to dream of him every night."

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