366 Squared Volume 0: Free Sampler

By Michel Clasquin-Johnson
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Published: Jan. 14, 2013
Words: 8,996 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301584680

Short description

To start with, this volume will contain 12 short stories (exactly 366 words each) to present the kind of story that this series will contain. As the twelve volumes in the series are published, this book will be updated, each time with an additional story from the latest volume. Each story in this volume is based on a true historical event. But that is merely a starting point ...

Extended description

This book series comes from a challenge I set myself in September 2012: write a story a day for a year (and include a bonus story for February 29). Almost every story in this volume is based on a real event, a celebration, a birth or a death associated with a specific day. If the reference is too obscure, you can look it up in the back of the book, where all the day references are listed. And it is just a reference to that day. The actual action in the story may take place slightly earlier or later in time. It may even be a reference transposed centuries into the past or future, or into an alternative universe influenced by what did (not) happen that day, in true science fiction style. And historians will sometimes disagree about the exact day on which something happened. Your source may date the Battle of Salamis a day or two later than mine. I did say almost every story. For some days of the year, I just could not find something tied to that day in history to write anything interes.. (Read more) This book series comes from a challenge I set myself in September 2012: write a story a day for a year (and include a bonus story for February 29). Almost every story in this volume is based on a real event, a celebration, a birth or a death associated with a specific day. If the reference is too obscure, you can look it up in the back of the book, where all the day references are listed. And it is just a reference to that day. The actual action in the story may take place slightly earlier or later in time. It may even be a reference transposed centuries into the past or future, or into an alternative universe influenced by what did (not) happen that day, in true science fiction style. And historians will sometimes disagree about the exact day on which something happened. Your source may date the Battle of Salamis a day or two later than mine. I did say almost every story. For some days of the year, I just could not find something tied to that day in history to write anything interesting about. But fear not! You will receive your daily quota of words. For such days, there will be a little essay, a poem, well, something. These are short-short stories, or flash fiction, if you prefer. I enjoy the discipline of writing to a precise limit, creating an entire world in a single page; it's a little like writing haiku poetry. I therefore considered limiting myself to an exact number of words, but on what basis? 100 words, 500 words, or what? The answer suggested itself: "366 366-word stories" has a nice ring to it, and that ended up giving me the title "366 Squared".
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short stories, science fiction, superman, flash fiction, superhero, laika, supervillain, pan, manhattan, marathon, batman, april fools day, dune, telephone, peanuts, pheidippides, pope alexander vi, rosetta stone, night before christmas, mahatma gandhi, frank herbert, alexander graham bell, peter minuit, snoopy, almon brown strowger, roderigo borgia, visit from saint nicholas, mohandas karamchand gandhi

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