sr71plt
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This isn't a criticism, I'm just curious. Would you read a six page story if it was in three chapters of two pages each (maybe on the basis you could read a chapter each day) or would you just not read a story that length at all?
I normally don't even click on an entry over three Lit. pages (roughly over 11,250) and am not often motivated to even three a three pager. One of my recent ones is six pages, but, as PennLady noted, it's a contest entry so there wasn't much other choice, and it's sectioned. The classic definition of a short story is that it can be read at one sitting. "One sitting" is getting shorter and shorter in the cyberworld, not longer. Beyond that, there's about a 90 percent chance that anything longer than three Lit. pages that's striving to be limited to a short story format is scattered and verbose and in the need of a literary hatchet.