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Esquire Magazine, for their seventy-eighth anniversary, held a contest to find seventy-eight word stories. The stories, however, had to be fictional.

How does one write a fictional story?

Just to clarify: Fictional means not real. That is not to say that the story should not be true. That would be a fiction story. A fictional story is one that does not actually exist. Big difference between a work of fiction and a fictional work. The content of a fiction story is fictitious. The story, though, is not fictitious.

So, with no intention of submitting it: I wrote a seventy-eight word story on this subject, in three chapters: Situation, Conflict, and Resolution. Then: I gave it a title that has nothing to do with the story content, and made a movie of it.

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