Unpopular take: I don’t think microfiction illuminates atomic structure of long stories. They’re fun but more closely related to jokes. The essence of long story is compounding accumulation across the atoms.
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Realized from the answers that unconsciously I am thinking of serialized atoms. There’s no reason the atoms have to be continuous segments of text. Though I can’t think of a candidate counterexample. Maybe a thread?
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great question though
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A single word can meaningfully create an emotion. So I guess it depends on how you define story and the relationship between what the author intends and the reader infers.
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No question it’s sensory context setting upfront.
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I would argue that it is "silence". Silence can mean an infinite amount of things when placed in different places, and it is both the start and ending of every narrative.
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I wrote a bit about this a while ago.https://twitter.com/jose_goncalves_/status/1308810514835869696?s=19 …
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I think a dialogue is complete by itself.
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Other. Think of famous micro-stories like "Baby shoes for sale, never worn" or tito monterroso's "and when he awoke, the dinosaur was still there." The common element is there's a *question*. Plot without question is the encyclopedia, not a story.
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What a great take , thanks for sharing
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