I read Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories (edited by Jerome Stern) for a class. Each story inside was comprised of a mere 250 words--perfectly suited to my attention span. The professor told us to write our own 300-word "micro narratives" describing events from our pasts.
I'd like to continue to do this as a personal project of self-reflection and self-preservation. All I have are snapshots of my past, things I'm afraid to forget. These memories are not necessarily significant, but who knows, maybe they are.
These are imperfect--parts may be missing, exaggerated, fabricated. But these aren't fiction. These are tidbits of my life as I remember them. |
