Are Short Anthologies Allowed?

[MatthewVett]

I was curious: if I have a few stories that are under the 750 word limit, can I submit them together as a mini-anthology?

 

[lovecraft68]

I think you can

I am pretty sure Ogg has done it

 

[Hypoxia]

I was curious: if I have a few stories that are under the 750 word limit, can I submit them together as a mini-anthology?

I don't know what LC said cause I have him on Ignore but the answer is certainly 'yes'. I think Ogg has a number of 100-word story collections. I have two anthologies from last Hallowe'en's contest, A Taste of Pumpkin and A Taste of Spirits. These are best received when they have some commonality IMHO. I didn't do so hot with PUMPKIN because the vignettes' only connection was the holiday. SPIRITS worked well because of its storytelling-around-a-campfire framing device. If you don't want confused and pissed readers, frame your pieces together: Friends or strangers meet somewhere (bar/cafe, holding cell, transit center, whatever) and swap related stories.

 

[TxRad]

I don't know what LC said cause I have him on Ignore but the answer is certainly 'yes'. I think Ogg has a number of 100-word story collections. I have two anthologies from last Hallowe'en's contest, A Taste of Pumpkin and A Taste of Spirits. These are best received when they have some commonality IMHO. I didn't do so hot with PUMPKIN because the vignettes' only connection was the holiday. SPIRITS worked well because of its storytelling-around-a-campfire framing device. If you don't want confused and pissed readers, frame your pieces together: Friends or strangers meet somewhere (bar/cafe, holding cell, transit center, whatever) and swap related stories.

Oggs are 50 word stories. 15 stories make up 750 words.

 

[oggbashan]

I was curious: if I have a few stories that are under the 750 word limit, can I submit them together as a mini-anthology?

I write 50-word stories. I submit them in sets of 15 to reach the 750 word minimum. Since I don't count the title of each 50-worder, nor my copyright statement, I am about 50 words over the 750 word lower limit.

 

[MatthewVett]

Awesome. Thanks for your assistance, everyone!

 

[Hypoxia]

I write 50-word stories. I submit them in sets of 15 to reach the 750 word minimum. Since I don't count the title of each 50-worder, nor my copyright statement, I am about 50 words over the 750 word lower limit.

I tried to click the link to check your stories myself but I get a weird error; and yes, I've reported it. So since I can't look for myself, I'll ask: Do you group your collections by theme or anything? (Sorry, I last glanced at those a year ago and I just don't remember. Brain deteriorating. Memory shot to shit. Doomed...)

 

[oggbashan]

I tried to click the link to check your stories myself but I get a weird error; and yes, I've reported it. So since I can't look for myself, I'll ask: Do you group your collections by theme or anything? (Sorry, I last glanced at those a year ago and I just don't remember. Brain deteriorating. Memory shot to shit. Doomed...)

The error? Literotica is changing from http to https, and my list of stories in my signature had been affected. I've amended the link. It should work now.

But to answer your question: Yes. They were usually entries for the themed contests - Halloween, Winter Holidays etc.

This https://www.literotica.com/s/love-fifty is one of the sets.

 

[glynndah]

I wrote a series of flash fiction with another writer here. There was no particular theme that I recall. I'd include a link but I can't recall the title or the name we used.