Plenty of Unusual Mental Images You Need
(And One You Might Not)

When I stumble onto a newspaper like The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon, I'm just dying to know what sort of local media history took place to lead to the creation of that hybridized name... but my main purpose in turning you to that paper today is their interview with Bruce Holland Rogers, the author behind ShortShortShort.com, where he sells $5 annual subscriptions that provide readers with a steady stream of short-short stories such as "Don Ysidro," which actually won last year's World Fantasy Award for best short fiction. How did he come by the domain name? "I had to call the Web site 'shortshortshort' because somebody was already squatting on 'shortshort.com,'" he told the reporter.