The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

An interesting and significant short 5000 word story hits your desk.
On its own with no context, the reading public will never recognize it for what it is.
So you dress it up with 20,000 words of Q and A interrogative dialogue to explain the context.  You add in:
-     An Afterword
-     A Few Illustrations
-     A Note from the Illustrators
-     A Postscript
-     A Conversation between … ..
-     Questions for Discussion
-     A Bio
-     An About the Translations
-     An About the Illustrators
-     A Preface
-     An Introduction
-     A few “Praise For” Pages
-     Massive white space, fewer than 200 words per page
And it still only weighs in at 160 small pages.
However, I’m happy they got it out there! !! !!!
It’s a great short story.  Not a new plot theme, but well done.
A story we will all remember.  The Q and A will serve as a good reference guide.