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Five-Sentence Stories: A Short Collection of Flash Fiction
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A collection of 25 stories from several genres, all told in exactly five sentences. Travel between the mundane and the fantastic, the weird and the forgettable, in this short writing experiment. Here, the meaningless has meaning and that which has meaning is meaningless.
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Geoff Lichy
Geoff Lichy lives in New York's Hudson Valley. He's a graphic designer and photographer who has a lot of stories to share. Sometimes he makes music out of them, and sometimes he puts them into words.
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