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- You get a lot of great that's what she said moments, such as "I think it should be longer" and "Well, that was quick."
- You get to walk around singing, "Who writes short shorts We write short shorts They're such short shorts We like short shorts Who writes short shorts We write short shorts."
- You get to write it, edit it, submit it, get it accepted, and see it published all in the same day.
- You get to come up with your own name for what you write: compressed fiction, half-pinters, pocket fiction, stingy stories, and so on.
- You can be judged as major leaguers are: 3 hits out of 10 gets you in the Hall of Fame!
- Imagine saying you have three-hundred, five-hundred, one thousand pieces published! Imagine how great you must be to accomplish such a thing!
- I once got paid $500 for 5 fifty-word stories. That's $2 a word. Even Stephen King can't get that.
- It's like poetry. Only it's prose!
- It's Internet-ready!
- You can write endlessly about Hemingway's six-word story: They're baby shoes! Never worn! And they're for freakin' sale!
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