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[[Lit Fic]] - short for "[[Literary Fiction]]" - is a nebulous, broad term which emerged during the 1960s. Though it is usually contrasted with Genre Fiction ("[[Speculative Fiction]]", [[
From this you might infer that this is typically not the kind of work that provides one's daily fix of vampire-hunting, magically-transforming, banana-bending, mecha-piloting, super-powered, time-travelling teenagers beating the odds. Rather, a piece of [[Lit Fic]] is much likelier to be about everyday people doing everyday things, dealing with everyday problems and eventually coming to realizations or personal transformations. A family struggles with cancer. A man struggles with death. A couple struggles with alcoholism. A child struggles to become an adult. A touch of [[Magical Realism]] might be allowed, but never to the point where it becomes the focus of the story.
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