Schulz does prose
- By : Nat
- Category : Classic finds, Reviews
I am one shamefaced AAUGH Blogger.
Today I received a copy of a book – not something obscurely old, but something that’s in print now, and has been in print since shortly before this blog launched over a decade ago – with an original piece of Schulz work. No, not a cartoon, not a foreword nor introduction. It’s an original piece of pros fiction, a short story. Very short. The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death is a collection of microfiction, limited to 55 words per tale. A few of the other writer’s names are ones I recognize (Barnaby Conrad, Larry Niven, Norman Lear); most are not, but that may say more about me than about the authors.
Schulz’s tale is entitled “It was a Dark and Stormy Night…”, but it’s not the tale about the door slamming and the maid screaming. It’s an all-new non-Peanuts story. It’s not a lost masterwork, but even so, this is exactly the sort of thing the AAUGH.com book guide exists to catalogue. So I apologize for having been deficient up until now… but that has been rectified, and the story is now listed on on the guide’s “introductions and illustrations” page… despite being neither an introduction nor an illustration.
