MICROFICTION PROJECTS

Each story in this collection was written by a student in the Fall 2001 Beginning Fiction Writing class.  Though each story stands by itself, they are all part of coordinated projects.  In each project, three writers work with a shared event, theme, or approach.  Reading each story in the order listed is recommended.  Click the project title to get to the individual stories.  And what’s “microfiction,” you ask?  It’s a term for short-short stories, each under a thousand words in this case.

Like what you read?  E-mail the writer your comments through a link on the writers name at the beginning of each story.  Have comments on the overall project?  Let me know.

Thanks for reading,

Jim O’Loughlin

 

Behind the Mirror

Gregg Hennigan, Tony Baranowski III, Vanessa Wright

Three strangers in a bar try to decide what is actually going on.  Whose perspective is most perceptive?

 

The Cardinal

Nick Rossman, Matt Bloom, Alissa Dillavou

A bird flies through three lives touching each (and being touched) uniquely.

 

The Whole Story

Lisa Schmitt, Kelly Klopfenstein, Regan Kearns

Everyone has a piece of the puzzle in this apartment complex.  Can you put it all together?

 

Seth’s Sex Adventure

Elysia Hansel, Emily Wheeler, Jeremy Adams

Well, if that title won’t get you to read it, nothing I say here will either.