Nesting Dolls Anthology

For our next anthology, we want to do something a bit more novel (see what we did there?). This time, the stories will be nested, one within the other, like Russian nesting dolls. So here’s what you need to do: Write a story in which, at roughly the two-thirds mark, a character tells another character a story to illustrate a point. Only don’t write that story-within-a-story. Someone else’s story will be plugged in there! And someone else’s will be plugged into theirs. And so on. Then, the last third of your story will continue when the character responds to/ignores/fails to understand the story-within-the-story which you haven’t even read. And the end of your story will be the story another character responds to/ignores/fails to understand in someone else’s story! Write in any genre; it’s fine if a character in a sci-fi tells a fantasy story which includes a character who tells a Western which includes a character who tells a murder mystery which includes a character who tells a story that’s historical fiction! You won’t know which story will be set within yours and which story will envelope yours, so we hope this will be just as much fun for you as it will be for every other reader! It will be the ultimate celebration of storytelling.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2021