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As a birthday gift to myself, I set a goal to write one 54-word micro story a day for 54 days. I think of these tiny, tiny stories more like situational or character vignettes. This wintery exercise in creative distilling, whittling, and pruning has been a fun though slightly daunting challenge to capture the esse…
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