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In this fast-moving age of juggling work and family life, commuting and queuing, overtime competing with quality time, it has become harder for people to find extended opportunities to relax and read. The Wonderful World of Worders is our panacea - a restful lay-by on the manic motorway that is our daily lives.
Worders are micro-stories varying from 60 to 250 words. Our collection - lovingly gathered, nurtured and presented by Jenni Doherty - contains 525 Worders from 72 authors and 27 countries.
The stories are alive with originality, craft, emotion and ideas from all walks of life and corners of the world, many first created within online writing communities. They range from contemporary modern-day issues to horror, from science fiction to romance, humour to grief, religion to satire, philosophy to surrealism, experimental to wacky - all genres and styles that we have come to expect from full novels.
Fresh, fast and fun, this collection proves we can communicate at anytime, any place and anywhere. It also proves that fiction continues to be a stimulating, challenging, boundary-breaking genre with many dimensions still to be explored. Let the literary adventure begin!
REVIEWS:
"Worders are thresholds where the self suddenly understands where it stands in the world. They aspire to being as instantaneous as a text message but can be thought about again and again as small parables of human life. The luminous moment must fade - but the memory remains and is transformed into language by these writers co-operating across global boundaries. Here, then, is a stimulating and often moving collection of new writing born from the fusion of today's technology with the human experience of the vastness of every passing moment."
Sean O'Reilly, author of the foreword.
"I applaud this collection and suggest that anyone who has ever written,or wanted to write, buys this book in solidarity with other like-minded souls. If you ever wanted to write, take inspiration from this book."
Citizen 32 Magazine, UK
"A new kind of bite-sized fiction that is ideal for readers with hectic lives."
Cork Examiner
"...humourous, slick and stylish [which] often harbour[s] a surprise ending. Here is the medium for the age of the sound-bite and for those of short attention span who cannot cope with the restraint of the haiku."
Books Ireland
"Modern innovative fiction like the shorter-than-short stories included here are exactly what the literary world needs to reinvent itself in the face of today's entertainment technology. The stories offer something for everyone. Written in a variety of styles, these bite-size nuggets of fiction all glow with warmth, wit and originality. The editor in her introduction suggests that we make better use of our spare minutes by reading, for, as one worder puts it: 'books make people think.' [This] is the perfect book for such a pursuit and a steal for all those moments of thumb-twiddling it not only relieves, but invigorates and illuminates."
Inishowen Independent
"The variety of styles and thematic renderings is one of the book's great appeals; it provided a range of concepts, issues and images that left me wondering,thinking and inspired to write."
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