Not Quite Self: A Liminal Microfiction Lab

Not Quite Self: A Liminal Microfiction Lab is a printable writing workbook for writers who love strange sentences, surreal scenes, dreamcore imagery, institutional dread, and fiction that feels haunted before anything actually happens.

Instead of starting with plot, this workbook helps you begin with one charged sentence. You’ll generate raw lines, make them more specific, distort them through revision lenses, expand them into microfiction, and explore how your strongest lines can become social-media pull quotes or seeds for longer work.

Inside, you’ll find:

• 10 core sentence stems

• demonstration lines with explanations

• a liminal word bank

• sentence revision exercises

• a microfiction builder

• a self-paced 10-day practice guide

• a social-media pull-quote challenge

• prompts for pairing your lines with mallworld, dreamcore, and institutional imagery

Best for writers of weird fiction, flash fiction, microfiction, surreal personal essays, liminal horror, atmospheric prose, and strange little stories that start with a feeling instead of a plot.

Start with the sentence. Make it stranger. Let the room appear around it.