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Lesson 1 (from The Falling Girl, Death of the Right Fielder, Blackberries, Don't You Blame Anyone)

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Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-short Stories is a collection of short narratives, none longer than six pages, drawn from writers around the world. The running theme throughout the collection is the encapsulation of the infinite or universal in the single moment. Editor Robert Shapard is a former managing editor of Western Humanities Review and has published several anthologies of contemporary short stories. In this lesson, students are introduced to the book and will research the anthology and its editors.

Lesson

1) Teacher Lecture: Introduce the students to the book. Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-short Stories is a collection of short narratives, none longer than six pages, drawn from writers across the world. Editor Robert Shapard is a former managing editor of Western Humanities Review and has published several anthologies of contemporary short stories.

2) Research...

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