// THE SHORTEST STORY // Postcards From Impossible Worlds
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Last published Tue, May 19, 2020
Strange, beautiful and captivating stories sent as postcards from lives you never lived and worlds that never existed.
These 30-second stories feature evil twins, insecure ghosts, pep-talking cannibals, judgmental sea monsters, juggling vigilantes, and lovesick apocalypse survivors.
New book now available featuring the voice of Cecil Baldwin (Welcome to Night Vale) and guest stories by:
*Robert Shearman* (Doctor Who, They Do the Same Things Different There)
*Helen Marshall* (Hair Side, Flesh Side; Gifts for the One Who Comes After)
*Shawn Coss* (Any Means Necessary, Cyanide and Happiness)
*Sonya Ballantyne* (Crash Site, Eagle Girl, Nosisism)
*James Miller* (A Small Fiction, Dear Toadington)
*Sandra Kasturi* (Come Late to the Love of Birds)
I'd love if you could check it out at http://shorteststory.com/book
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