Edward Martin III's
Carnival of Tiny Stories

Welcome one and all to The Carnival of Tiny Stories, submitted for your approval. The Carnival started out as an entry into a short-short-short story contest, but things got out of hand. I guess it's a whole subgenre of fiction, usually referred to as "nanofiction".

In addition to the Carnival of Tiny Stories, I'll be featuring a different story, changing regularly. Come visit and see the latest and the shortest!

Currently Featured Tiny Story

Pork

He ate only pork and was voracious. Bacon, sausage, ham, ribs, everything. His holy duty was consuming all pigs. To more effectively serve him, he bought a mechanized pig farm. When he slipped and fell into the grinder, his last thoughts were not of irony, buy of his final failure in destroying all the pigs.

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The Archive

...And Eating It, Too!	Alone (new!)
The Apple from the Tree	Approval
Bad Boys	Bat Boy
Blessings in Disguise (new!)	Boyish Figure
Budget Cutbacks	Burying Charlie
The Calculus Test	The Cats
Collectibles	Consensus (new!)
The Contest	Cost-Efficient (new!)
Creating Life	Crying
The Customary Greeting	Damn Clones
Dancin' Fool (new!)	Darcy's Skeleton
Devotion	Dinosaur, Inc. (new!)
Disposable	Dog Heaven
The Enemy of my Enemy	Escape to the Nonphysical (new!)
Eternity	The Exchange (new!)
The Experimental Foray	Experimental Limits
FTL	Faith
Falling	A Family State (new!)
Famous (new!)	Fly Cheap!
Formal Dress	Fruit Hate (new!)
Goals	The Good Old Days
A Good Scrub (new!)	A Great Big Lie (new!)
The Great Escape	Honor
Hot Chili	Hunter
Identity (new!)	Illegal Alien
In the Hands of Fools	Internet Date (new!)
Jimbo	Jimmy's Betrayal
Journey of Discovery	Junk Mail
Karen's Pool Boy	Kindness
The Kiss (new!)	Keeping Ahead
Lessons (new!)	Lithp (new!)
The Locomotive	The Lone Monkey
Loser (new!)	Marat's Woman
Meet Your Maker	Miaow!
Mirrors	A Mixed Blessing
Monkey Attack	The Monkey's Paw
A Moral Household (new!)	Mosquito
Muk-Ducks	My Shadow
National Pasttime	My Volcano
Necronomicon	News to Starfleet
No Bet	No Means No
The Nose	The Old School
One Little Mistake	Only to a Second Party
Pal on Top	Pagan Rituals (new!)
Pandering	Parlour Tricks
A Peculiar Competitor	Pepsi
The Perfect Mate	Plaoivne (new!)
Poetry Warfare (new!)	A Political Parable I: God
A Political Parable II: Satan	A Political Parable III: Heaven
A Political Parable IIII: Hell	A Political Parable IIIII: Earth
Pork (new!)	The Present
Prometheus (new!)	Promises (new!)
Protestation	placeholder
Quit Barking at Each Other	The Real Problem
Really the End (new!)	Revival
The Righteous Gunfighter	Risk
Safety	See No Evil
Sewage and Wine (new!)	Shimmer
Ship of Doom	Shock Troops (new!)
The Shortcut	Smug Humans
Son of a What?!	Spawn! Now! (new!)
Standing Out	Starter Pet
Superstar	Swords Into Ploughshares
Tainted Love I	Tainted Love II
Tainted Love III	Target Practice
The Trees for the Forest	Try a Boy (new!)
Two Birds with One Stone (new!)	The Ultimate Protection
Unspeakable! Evil!	Vaporware
Venusian Discretion	Vows
Victor is Gone	Waitress
War is Hell	With a Clear Conscience
The Writer (new!)	Yes Means Yes

Check out other people's tiny stories (or nanofiction, as I guess it's now called):

Bitbooks!

Henry J. Oliver III's site has a few stories of his and links to others. I'm amazed other people are doing this too, but you know -- it's fun!

Cool! Without even asking, we received this lovely award.