An excerpt of a post by Fierce Dolan 

"Short stories are an under-appreciated art in post-postmodern literature. It isn't that we don't know how to write them well; rather, we don't know how to honor their brevity. Ironic in a drive-through microwave culture, that, as I often hear readers say they don't enjoy short stories because they aren't long enough. It isn't that they aren't compelling, aren't as well-developed as their long haul cohorts, or don't accomplish as much in significantly less pages. Short fiction often loses out because we want more. Enjoying something so much as to want an extra scoop is a great problem to have."