余同友是我省创作界进入新世纪后脱颖而出的一位青年作家。短短十来年,他在全国各地文学期刊发表中短篇小说90余篇,日益受到文学界关注和好评,较之他的中篇小说,我更欣赏他的短篇创作。当今的文学创作界,小说似乎越写越长。20世纪后期,中篇小说风起云涌,跨入新世纪,长篇小说又铺天盖地,短篇小说少有问津,几乎成了被遗忘的角落,就连一些初涉文学创作的新人一出手就是长篇,似乎没有几十万字便不能称为作家。其实,这是很不正常的。记得20世纪八十年代初,笔者 Yu Tongyou is a young writer who has come to the fore after the creative circle of our province entered the new century. In a short period of ten years, he published more than 90 short stories in literary journals all over the country, attracting more and more attention and praise from literary circles. Compared with his novella, I admire his short creations. Today’s literary world, the novel seems to write more longer. In the late twentieth Century, novels surging into the new century, novels and overwhelming, short stories rare, almost forgotten corner, and even some of the first time involved in the creation of literary novel is a long piece, it seems few One hundred thousand words can not be called a writer. In fact, this is not normal. I remember the early eighties of the 20th century, the author