What is "sudden fiction"

n. 1 (context countable English) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short story. 2 (context uncountable English) The genre of such stories.

Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short Stories is a collection of short stories published in 1996. It was compiled and edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas. It is a follow-up to Sudden Fiction International (1989) and Sudden Fiction - American Short-Short Stories.

Notable authors in Sudden Fiction (Continued) include William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Mark Richard, Molly Giles, Bruce Holland Rogers, Barry Peters, Andrew Lam, and Judy Troy.

Category:1996 short story collections Category:Fiction anthologies

Sudden Fiction is the third album by Dan Michaelson aka Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards and was released by indie label Editions in 2011.