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What are some of your favorite literary vignettes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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A vignette is a short (< 1000 words), descriptive literary sketch, usually capturing a single scene or a brief slice-of-life moment in a character’s experience.

Usually in people's comments to some crazy AskReddit questions I used to read really cool stuff like that, then just online I began coming across vignettes written by authors and artists. One of my favorites is "A Choice of Three" by Alex Turner (frontman of Arctic Monkeys), Leonard Cohen also writes good ones, Ernest Hemingway, etc.

If you have any similar ones I'd love to read them!

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[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they're made out of meat

I guess not quite a vignette but I still stand by the post

[–] cybercitizen4@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh that's a cool read and exactly what I was looking for! Thank you very much, I'm going to add it to /c/vignettes as well.