E.G. Fabricant

• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
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Here's my entry in Round Five of National Public Radio's Three Minute Fiction, concluded Nov.14. Had to be 600 words or less; had to begin with Some people swore that the house was haunted; and had to end with the line, Nothing was ever the same agai...

• Apr-2011
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Here's my entry in Round Six of National Public Radio's Three Minute Fiction, concluded April 3. As usual, had to be 600 words or less; this round one character had to tell a joke and one character had to cry. From the selections, seems the screeners...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Matters Familiar is an anthology of short stories, offering 12 tales from inside complex contemporary relationships featuring parents; kids; convicts; hustlers; lawyers; politicians; and other undesirables: A small girl, suffocating in the growing cu...

• Nov-2011
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Here's my entry for Round Seven of National Public Radio's Three Minute Fiction, concluded November 12. As usual, had to be 600 words or less; this round one character had to come to town and one character had to leave town. Still not buying my theor...

• Feb-2013
• / Historical
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Midterms was my entry in NPR’s Round Nine of their occasional feature, “Three Minute Fiction,” in which they invite listeners to submit an original, unpublished story of 600 or fewer words which fulfills a condition set by that Roun...

• May-2013
• / Space Opera
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It's six weeks until the scheduled launch of the first manned Mars fly-by, when Diana Erden-one-half of the married "Phobonaut" crew-loses consciousness. The choice facing the TransMars Collective, a private venture on the threshold of hist...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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""A Call Away" is built upon one of my free stories, "Me-Molly," which was my entry in NPR's Round 10 of their occasional feature, "Three Minute Fiction." There, the 600-word story had to be written "as a voice-mail message." It was my first tale"...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Timeout was my contribution to Round 11 of National Public Radio’s “Three Minute Fiction,” concluded June 9, 2013. Rules: 600 words or fewer; not “inappropriate;” and in which a character finds something he or she has no...

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Me--Molly is my entry in NPR’s Round Ten of their occasional feature, “Three Minute Fiction.” In this case, each story had to be written as a voice-mail message.” Had to be dialogue, right? I thought, This is my chance. They d...