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To Make a Short Story Long: Towards a new genre in writing, publishing

The book Tell Me a Long, Long Story is a collection of 12 stories that are neither short enough to be called a short story not long enough to be published independently.

Mini Krishnan, the editor of Tell Me a Long, Long Story, explains in the preface how the anthology came to be. While she was putting together translations

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