I love the idea of twitterstories. Having enough of them, these would be great to for students to transform them into flash-fiction pieces, with the original line as the opener. Great stuff.
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Darren Cormier
6/26/2011 11:55:42 am
Thanks, Mike.
Glad you enjoy them. Feel free to use them with your students, too. That's a great idea.
Darren Cormier lives in the Boston area. He is the author of A Little Soul: 140 Twitterstories. His fiction has appeared in Opium Magazine, Meetinghouse, Amoskeag, Every Day Fiction, Raft Magazine, Arch Literary Journal, and One Forty Fiction, Ether Books, and Seedpod Publishing. Writing peeves: there should be a comma before the "and" in a set of three or more items; it is "A historic" not "AN historic"--the 'h' is pronounced; would've, could've, and should've are contractions and should never be written as "would of," "could of," or "should of"; and "ATM machine" is redundant. He also invented the giraffe.