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Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Elizabeth McCracken

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Kurzspielerei ist wie eine Erleichterung. Und wenn Ihre Geschichte keinen Humor hat, versuchen Sie, etwas in der Dunkelheit zu betrachten. Mit dem Licht des Humors wirft das, was Sie schreiben, in Erleichterung, so dass Sie es tatsächlich sehen können.

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