Quick Fiction

So many literary magazines, so little time, as my colleague David Mehegan points out below. Recently I came across Quick Fiction, celebrating its fifth anniversary. The local journal publishes stories under 500 words. Ron Carlson, who has had stories published in The New Yorker and "The Best American Short Stories," has a story in the most recent issue of Quick Fiction about a dog who weighs the literary merits of the books he has eaten.