The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death : passion, betrayal, suspicion, revenge : all this and more in a new collection of amazing short stories - each one just 55 words long! / compiled and edited by Steve Moss and John M. Daniel ; illustrations by Glen Starkey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moss, Steve, 1948- compiler, editor.

Daniel, John, 1941-2020, compiler, editor.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Romance fiction, American.

Death--Fiction.

Death.

Genre:

novels.

Novels

Fiction

Short stories.

Love stories.

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

223, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Distribution:

London : Running Press,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Running Press, 1999.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Falling in Love

Living in Love

Death of Love

Love of Death

Death of Life

Life after Death

Stories We Loved and Were Dying to Include

Fifty-Five Fiction: The Rules.

Notes:

"Illustrations by Glen Starky (?). Cover and interior designed by Mary Ann Liquori. Edited by Patricia Aitken Smith. Typography: Trixie and Garamond Light."--Title page verso.

"... this time, we decided to ask several well-known personalities to try their hand at writing a 55-word story. Cartoonist Charles Schulz obliged as did TV producer Norman Lear. Writers Herbert Gold, Neil Steinberg, Barnaby Conrad and science fiction maven Larry Niven did, too."-- Introduction.

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy is "1" printing.

ISBN:

0762406984

9780762406982

OCLC:

44053298

Online:

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