No Period

No Period by Harry Turtledove.

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Every great writer needs to indulge in a little experimentation.

Or a little prank.

Since this is Harry Turtledove this short story involves alternate history, precisely a meditation on the “what-ifs?” that might have enabled the poor shlub narrator to have had a successful marriage rather than a failure.

The prank is that the story is told as a six-page run-on, stream of consciousness, single sentence.

As a reader, you should be onto the joke in the first page, but there is a nice twist at the end and the narrative is pretty amusing.

This is a party trick, not really a story, but it's not a bad party trick.

It's also about a five-minute read.