Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻
1 min readJan 30, 2019

Martine Weber – I’ve actually earned more from poetry and flash fiction, than I have from longer form fiction, even if the clap rate appears similar. Thing is, people are more likely to read and respond to a shorter poem than a 3000 word short story. The latter may be bookmarked, and never looked at again…

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Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻
Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻

Written by Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻

sneaking poetry into the corners of the day, and telling stories to myself in grasp of sanity.

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Thing is, people are more likely to read and respond to a shorter poem than a 3000 word short story.

Zarina Dara 🥀💃🏻 you may have a point there! Now that’s good news … I’ll write some more poetry then…which I love doing <3

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