Atlantic Magazine has brought back the short story. A few years ago the magazine quit their tradition. But now readers are full of opinions. Should short stories stay or go again?
I AM SO HAPPY THAT ATLANTIC IS MAKING SPACE FOR SHORT STORES! I wish more magazines would do so!
It was in magazines that I was first exposed to short fiction, a genre a studied and wrote quite a bit for a time. Pre-Internet, I believed that people would read short fiction, collections of it, because they still wanted to read and did not have the time for reading full length books. I anticipated that this form would intrigue more readers.
Now the Internet has everyone reading blurbs and abbreviations. We quickly assess a site and decide if it will provide the information we're seeking. It's difficult to imagine life without at least an hour a day on the computer. So it's not THE TIME TO READ after all, but a significant change in our attention span that's changed, which SHOULD MAKE SHORT FICTION HOT AGAIN!
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