With today’s busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in... More > cuneiform script and hieroglyphic writing.
The answer could be Short Humour, which can be read at any time and almost anywhere.
Far Eastern, low cost, pirate versions of The Oxferd Inglish Ducksionery explain Short Humour as ‘Non-serious writing that is not too long’. Swan Morrison defined ‘not too long’ as around 500 words, and stories, poems and the like began to be written that could be read in their entirety in less than ninety seconds.
A Man of Few Words is a collection of one hundred such examples of SH by Swan Morrison with a connecting theme of life in contemporary Britain.
In addition, The Short Humour Site has been created at www.short-humour.org.uk. This site aims to promote the reading and writing of SH both in Britain and throughout the world and to showcase the work of writers of the genre.< Less
With today’s busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in... More > cuneiform script and hieroglyphic writing.
The answer could be Short Humour, which can be read at any time and almost anywhere.
Far Eastern, low cost, pirate versions of The Oxferd Inglish Ducksionery explain Short Humour as ‘Non-serious writing that is not too long’. Swan Morrison defined ‘not too long’ as around 500 words, and stories, poems and the like began to be written that could be read in their entirety in less than ninety seconds.
A Man of Few Words is a collection of one hundred such examples of SH by Swan Morrison with a connecting theme of life in contemporary Britain.
In addition, The Short Humour Site has been created at www.short-humour.org.uk. This site aims to promote the reading and writing of SH both in Britain and throughout the world and to showcase the work of writers of the genre.< Less
People of Few Words - Volume 2 is the second collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty... More > writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.< Less
In 2006, Swan Morrison published A Man of Few Words, a collection of one hundred examples of Swan’s Short Humour with a connecting theme of life in the modern world.
This book is a second such... More > collection and includes one hundred further comedy stories, dialogues, poems, letters, spoof news reports,
articles and songs.
Also in 2006, The Short Humour Site was created at www.short-humour.org.uk.
This site continues to promote the reading and writing of Short Humour,both in Britain and throughout the world. The Writers’ Showcase on
the Site now includes hundreds of pieces by numerous writers.< Less
People of Few Words - Volume 4 is the fourth collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty... More > writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.< Less
People of Few Words - Volume 2 is the second collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty... More > writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.< Less
With today's busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in... More > cuneiform script and hieroglyphic writing. The answer could be Short Humour, which can be read at any time and almost anywhere. Far Eastern, low cost, pirate versions of The Oxferd Inglish Ducksionery explain Short Humour as 'Non-serious writing that is not too long'. Swan Morrison defined 'not too long' as around 500 words, and stories, poems and the like began to be written that could be read in their entirety in less than ninety seconds. "A Man of Few Words" is a collection of one hundred such examples of SH by Swan Morrison with a connecting theme of life in contemporary Britain.< Less
