In 1951, The Saturday Evening Post published Ray Bradbury’s short short story, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The illustration from that story inspired the monster in the movie of the same name.

Later known as The Fog Horn, this terrific short story created all sorts of opportunities for Mr. Bradbury and all sorts of permutations of itself in, for example, the popular movie The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and several short story anthologies. Short short stories can be like that – small packages that contain a big-life potential.

For the reader, short short stories grab you fast, pull you into a short, intense rollercoaster ride, and toss you out, emotionally staggering at the end. Wahoo! What fun! Then they can stick in your thoughts – sometimes for the rest of your life.

Fast, short, full of life, that’s the short short story. 4 Star Stories has gotten its share of them, but we couldn’t decide exactly what to do with them. They were too short for a regular issue, but they were too good not to publish. So, we came to the conclusion that these stories deserved an issue of their very own.

Mid-winter, when the season’s gone on a little too long, seemed like the perfect time to publish some fast-paced short short stories.

Immediately, we looked through our files and got in touch with our writers. We came up with six emotionally riveting short short speculative fiction stories, three fantasy and three science fiction, for your speed-reading pleasure.

Enjoy!

The Editors

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