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Students in this course will read a number of very short stories -- defined as a complete work of fiction with a length of no more than five pages -- by authors who attained notoriety for their mastery of the flash-fiction form. Students will read from three major works (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis; Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme; and The Collected Stories of Franz Kafka) and write their own pieces of flash fiction in response. The class may also write some (very brief) critical analyses.