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Micro Terms

Six Word Story - A story in six words.
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Ten Word Story - A story in ten words.
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Hint Fiction - A story in 25 words or less.
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Dribble - A story in 50 words.
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Drabble - A story in 100 words.
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Complete Sentence - A story in one sentence of any length.

Six Sentence Story -  A story in six sentences.
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Anaphore - The same word(s) or rhythm repeats at the beginning of each sentence.
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Epistrophe - The same word(s) or rhythm repeats at the end of each sentence.
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Snowfall - Each sentence is one word shorter (or longer) than the previous one.
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Aberderius - Either the initial letter of each word or the initial letter of each sentence follows the order of letters in the alphabet.

Erasure - A story created by erasing words from another text.
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Hermit Crab - A story in the form of something else e.g. a list, a report card.
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Haiburn - A mixture of prose and haiku.
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