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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 31: Jan. 2026
Tiny Fiction: 4 + 10 words
+ Visual Art: Photographs
By Guy Biederman

Two Atomic Tales*

 

Happy Ending

Found

 

Happy Ending (August 2025): Photograph © by Guy Biederman
Happy Ending (photograph, August 2025)
Caption and image copyrighted © by Guy Biederman. All rights reserved.

Reprinted with author’s permission from his blog, This Day Afloat.

 

 

Shopping Cart Sightings

Binder: “Plans To Take Over the World”

 

Shopping Cart Sightings (May 2025): Photograph © by Guy Biederman
Shopping Cart Sightings (photograph, May 2025)

Caption and image copyrighted © by Guy Biederman. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with author’s permission from his blog, This Day Afloat.

 

 

*Publisher’s Note:

“Atomic tale” is a variation of the original term “atomic story” coined by Colombian writer Umberto Senegal for a sub-genre of microfiction, tiny tales no longer than 20 words each.

 

Bio: Guy Biederman

 
 
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