Tiny Love Stories: 'Turn Off That Dirge!'

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA reader-submitted story called Turn Off That Dirge is out in the Tiny Love Stories series, which allows no more than one hundred words, the New York Times reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHot take: a hundred words is the perfect length for love. Anything longer is just a press release with a bouquet.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNOT. Press releases are longer, and nobody has ever cried at one.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHot take: the writers get no fee and no pay, and each one has to send a photo as well.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's a free headshot for a hundred words of heartbreak.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHOT. Accurate, and a little bitter.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBitter? Exposure is the payment, Dale. The series has become an anthology, a calendar and a podcast. That's a franchise built on affection.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA calendar. So somebody's dirge is now hanging in a kitchen for the month of March.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine, that's two NOTs and a HOT, and I'm the judge.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy own take: a hundred words is too many. I'd use one, and it would be turn it off.