I'm coining a new term: "smashmouth fiction." A
Google search of this phrase yielded no hits among the world's eight billion or so web pages, so I'm staking a claim as the nomenclator and progenitor of this exciting new literary movement.
Merriam-Webster Unabridged defines
smashmouth as "
characterized by brute force and an absence of finesse or trickery : HARD-NOSED [e.g.,
smashmouth football]." So smashmouth fiction would be writing that grabs the reader by the throat in the opening sentence and continues to stimulate and/or provoke all the way to the final period of the closing chapter.
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