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Swan Morrison and the Short Humour Site
A Man of Few Words - The Short Humour of Swan Morrison
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With today’s busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature... More > might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in 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
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People of Few Words - Volume 3 - Fifty More Writers from the Writers' Showcase of the Short Humour Site
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People of Few Words - Volume 3 is the third collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the... More > world.It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer. < Less
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The Swan Morrison Songbook
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Ten of the best loved comedy songs of Swan Morrison with guitar chords in a convenient spiral binding for ease of use on stage.
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A Man of a Few More Words - More Short Humour by Swan Morrison
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In 2006, Swan Morrison published A Man of Few Words, a collection of one hundred examples of Swan’s Short Humour with a... More > connecting theme of life in the modern world.
This book is a second such 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
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People of Few Words - Volume 2 - Fifty More Writers from The Writers' Showcase of The Short Humour Site
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People of Few Words - Volume 2 is the second collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the... More > world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer. < Less
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People of Few Words - Fifty Writers from The Writers' Showcase of The Short Humour Site
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Fifty Short Humour stories from contributors to The Writers' Showcase of The Short Humour Site: http://www.short-humour.org.uk.
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A Man of Few Words - The Short Humour of Swan Morrison
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With today’s busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature... More > might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in 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
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About Brian Huggett

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Swan Morrison is the pen name of Brian Huggett.
Brian lives with his wife and two cats in Hampshire, England.
He has been publishing work on the Internet and in print since 2001.
In 2006, he created the Short Humour Site at http://www.short-humour.org.uk for comedy writing of around 500 words.
Three books are available from Lulu, each containing 50 pieces by contributors to the Short Humour Site: People of Few Words, People of Few Words - Volume 2 and People of Few Words - Volume 3. Further volumes are planned.
Swan’s own books, A Man of Few Words - The Short Humour of Swan Morrison and A Man of a Few More Words – More Short Humour by Swan Morrison are also available here. Each contains 100 pieces of Short Humour.
The third of Swan Morrison’s Short Humour Trilogy, A Man of Yet a Few More Words, is a work in progress which can be read at the Short Humour Site.
All profits from the writings of Swan Morrison are donated to the UK registered charity, Friends of Teso (Uganda).

 

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