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“How
one is revealed or undone by the perfect word”
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain
THE VIRTUE OF finishing a story in a thousand words or less
is in the way attention becomes microscopic: pointing toward
a gesture, a facial expression, or an action, that in the
hubbub of a longer work might be a mere background detail,
remarked on but not really noticed. In selecting one hundred
quite short stories for Decameron, the editors look
for writing that wrangles the expressive features of both
prose and verse. A good quite short story may deploy the recognizable
point-of-view and informational detail of fiction, with a
poem’s ephemerality and forceful diction and rhythm.
Decameron
began accepting submissions for their first anthology in 2009.
The magazine is published by The Pen & Anvil Press, a
publishing imprint of the Boston Poetry Union. Copyright for
materials appearing in the print edition and on this website
is reserved by the respective creators.
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