the way two sentence horror stories use words like 'as', 'while', 'but', 'however', 'only' as very obvious crutches to support the overwrought nature of these 'sentences' is extremely funny but it also makes me hyper-aware of when i occasionally do it in my own writing and im like oh no we cant have that here
i reckon if people borrowed a lot more from the way poetry works it might make for more interesting/unsettling microstories where the point is less about shock value of The Twist in the story but more about the inherent opaque nature of the way poetry is structured where u may have to read the same sentences a few times for the meaning of it all to really sink in. the problem is that would take a lot more effort and who wants that!
