Recently, I felt compelled to venture outside the world of cynical, soul-crushing blog commentary and into the world of cynical, soul-crushing fiction.At 7,554 words, my foolhardy foray seems to fall somewhere between a short story and a novella. Presuming no term existed for said length, I came up with a few of my own (a short-ish story or maybe a not-velonly to discover that a term did in fact exist: a novelette. No one sets out to write a novelette, do they? It sounds rather slightlike a kitchenette... read more