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THE ART OF SHORT FICTION What is it? Author Charles Blackstone tells.

WRITING GREAT SHORT STORIES Elizabeth Kadetsky who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University’s School of Journalism serves up some advice.

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CRAFTING CHARACTERS THAT JUMP OFF THE PAGE Punching up your fiction? Where there's a tipster, there's a way. Discover Robert Gregory Browne's secrets to getting multiple book deals.

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BIOFICTION INTRODUCED Even as she receives 5 stars on Amazon for Trine Erotic while editing/publishing Entelechy: Mind & Culture, Alice Andrews takes time to chat about the esoteric world of this mind-bending read.

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“Duotrope Digest ”

"...think of Duotrope’s Digest as a matchmaker of sorts. If you write fiction or poetry, we can help you find appropriate markets for your work."
--Shannon Wendt, Duotrope creator

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Mind is Glass

by Shalla DeGuzman

Look into a curved mirror inside a reflecting telescope, will you? And what do you see? Light. Colors corrugate, coalesce into… oh, hold on, dismembered memories making come backs.

Do over.

See a tape measure. Hear fashion stylists dress celebs at New York Fashion Week, form fit body type E's (Anna Nicole Smith and Monique), tailor accessories, exfoliate blackheads and dead skin, the usual. Did you know, within this scientific spectrum of style—especially if you're a trend aficionado—you may feel a desire to watch a support group, something like The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency? Many will. Then, run not sashay to the stores (me to my Walmart, swapmeets, the like) where measurements get minimized or maximized. Find happiness then even if it is fleeting.

So, midway through your shopping, light reaches infrared levels—five thousand micrometers, maybe more. Capris are matched with flat sandals; necklaces cascade, layer, scaled; cosmetics regimen start with "have you SPF 30?"

After a while, the tape measure ceases to exist. Customary rejections follow, but ease over time, until whatever you're wearing and however you look turn okay again. Pain? You may feel it, especially if your childhood sucked or the first person you ever had a crush on lied and ditched you for someone with braces (Steven Fine, 7th grade).

And even if Heidi Klum begs to don your line, you still must forget what came before. Heal. The mind is glass, a curved mirror and also a crocheted lace edging. What doesn't get reflected injures or knit together into yards of twisted yarn.

"It's a good piece."

--Gunnar, editor of 5_Trope

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