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Peter LaSalle’s (Fiction) books include the novels Strange Sunlight and Mariposa’s Song, five story collections—The Graves of Famous Writers, Hockey Sur Glace, Tell Borges if You See Him, What I Found Out About Her, and Sleeping Mask (forthcoming Jan 2017)—and a collection of essays on literary travel, The City at Three PM: Writing, Reading, and Traveling.

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Short story writers write short pieces of prose fiction that generally focus on a single theme, simple plots and few characters. There is considerable debate surrounding what should be the appropriate word limit for a piece of fiction to be considered a short story; it is generally considered to be between 1000 to about 20,000 words.

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