While the FlashFictionBlog is now defunct, you can still access their list of "Class Short-Shorts" to study various techniques and the use of compression. Authors include Guy de Maupassant, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and more. http://flashfictionblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/classic-short-shorts-all-stories-below.html
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