The idea for Missed-Fits is born of two central motivations at Calendar of Fools: the desire to create truly unique books and reading experiences for our readers, and the desire to provide a service or fill a gap in the professional short fiction space. In this case, the gap we saw is a relative dearth of stories of a certain length (1,200 to 2,100 words), and once we settled on that, the “unique books” part presented itself: stories with elements that are out of place, that don’t fit, that are missing.
So, we thought: what would happen if we created a space that was exclusively for these odd-length oddities? What if we set writers the task of purposely writing a story too long for flash fiction markets, briefer than traditional short stories, with misfit elements? What sorts of unique, interesting tales might we get? We found out.
Collected herein are a series of tales that are innovative, structurally or narratively, in ways unique to this story length. These are fast reads, but there are many of them, and they will stay with you. These small, misfit stories live alongside the ones by our accomplished anchor authors.
Featuring Stories by:
- R. R. Virdi
- Rebecca E. Treasure
- Jason Sanford
- Aaron Rosenberg
- Erin Roberts
- Shiv Ramdas
- Sunny Moraine
- Henry Herz
- Rob Cameron
- Robert Luke Wilkins
- Fendy S. Tulodo
- Romie Stott
- Joseph Sidari
- Kathleen Powell
- Adam Porkolab
- Caroline Pear
- Ben Murigu
- D. Thomas Minton
- Ali McLafferty
- Gregory Marlow
- Akis Linardos
- Uzma Kadri
- Kelsey Hutton
- Mark Henricks
- Beth Goder
- Reo Eveleth
- Maya Dworsky-Rocha
- Andy Dibble
- P.A. Cornell
- Laurence Raphael Brothers
- Nick Badot
- with a foreword by Jean-Paul L. Garnier
- edited by David A. Elsensohn
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