Currently I am putting together a collection of fifteen of my short stories. The collection will total about 50,000 to 60,000 words. Twitter is training me to write short short, and I mean short, synopses of my thoughts, and I thought, could I synopsize each short story in under 140 characters (characters, not words)? I tried it, and did – although these are not really synopses, they are more like teasers. And that is a good thing – they will come in handy for marketing the book. If you follow me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/storykim) don’t be surprised if you see these tweets again.

1. Pouting boy watches incipient tragedy brought about by a toad and a sandwich, yet does nothing. 2. Boy dressed like The Lone Ranger does good because good is supposed to be done. 3. Little girl discovers that hunting deer is nothing like hunting socks. 4. No one, not even dolphins, can learn to dive until they are ready. 5. Don’t let pirates trim your Christmas tree. 6. If there’s a magic trampoline in the basement, you should jump on it. 7. Photographs lie, just like parents. 8. You never have plenty of time for sex. 9. Little old lady substitutes flour for ashes in San Francisco. 10. Fed-up woman finds out what happens when your clichés come to life. 11. Busy businesswoman trades one habit for another, and kills a cat. 12. Old lady refuses to give up her haunted bed. 13. Old woman talks to one bear, listens to another, and sleeps with a third. 14. Widower stalks modest widow because her nose wrinkles. 15. Implacable cats instigate an elaborate revenge on whisker-stealing musician.

So tell me, would you buy this book of short stories?

 

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