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	<title>The Poetry of Living Fully &#187; Short Fiction</title>
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		<title>Distinctions Between Vignette, Prose Poem and Very Short Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some great happenings in literature can be called flash fiction, prose poetry, short-shorts, and even sudden stories &#8212; though the name &#8220;Sudden Story&#8221; strikes me as a little weird, like a stylistic choice rather than a form. It&#8217;s useful to think primarily of the author&#8217;s intent. Did they call it a poem? A story? A [...]
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		<title>Amazing Book: &#8216;Extreme Fiction &#8211; Fabulists and Formalists&#8217; &#8211; Michael Martone and Robin Hemley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a remarkable anthology of nontraditional fiction for writers interested in flash fiction, prose poetry, sudden stories, short-short fiction, formalist narrative, and/or fabulist storytelling. Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists is intelligently constructed, wonderfully organized, and spectacular for the texts it includes. The introduction is insightful and the book is altogether awesome. Read it all [...]
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		<title>Bad News? Good News? Luck versus Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://stephenlloydwebber.com/2011/09/13/bad-news-good-news-luck-versus-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, Luck is walking through the countryside and he comes across a garden seat and he&#8217;d like to sit down, but Intelligence is there. Luck asks Intelligence to move over, but Intelligence doesn&#8217;t want to. Luck proposes that they try a contest to see who is superior. The winner can go wherever [...]
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		<title>&#8220;I do not know how to make poems&#8221; &#8211; Henri Michaux on Writing Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Rene Bertele&#8217;s Panorama de la Jeune Poesie: * * * I write as I can, the first time after a bet or rather a rage. I was very surprised by the result of the explosion whichw as called a poem. That repeated itself. I am not used to it yet. .   . . [...]
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		<title>&#8216;It&#8217;s hard to be both relevant and positive nowadays&#8217; &#8211; re: David Berman&#8217;s &#8216;Actual Air&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<title>Cuttings vs. Projects: Two Ways of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Can You Write Twenty Books This Year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<title>FICTION: Try to Open Every Blasted Door Until . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, without much of a reason, I left my friend’s apartment and wandered Chicago’s streets. I left late in the evening and returned early the next morning. What I was doing, even by my own standards, was weird. I was checking doors to see if they were open. Not the doors to people’s [...]
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