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 we see in the professional short fiction space. In this case, the gap we saw was 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 kind of took care of itself.
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 but briefer than most short stories that appear in traditional short story markets? What sorts of unique, interesting tales might we get? We plan to find out.
Collected herein will be 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. Soon, Calendar of Fools will have an open call period for small, misfit stories that will live alongside the ones by our accomplished anchor authors. Come up with those odd ideas and send them to us.
Stories by:
- R. R. Virdi
- Rebecca E. Treasure
- Jason Sanford
- Aaron Rosenberg
- Erin Roberts
- Shiv Ramdas
- Sunny Moraine
- Henry Herz
- Rob Cameron
- with a foreword by Jean-Paul L. Garnier
- edited by David A. Elsensohn
Funded on
