In roughly bi-weekly installments, Dublanica wrote vignettes about the lives of wait staff and customers.

He wrote vignettes for children's magazines, translated books of children's literature, and wrote several children's books of his own.

He wrote vignettes and "shorts" for several episodes of "Sesame Street" from 1984 to 1986.

But Mr. Wagner writes compulsively readable vignettes, knows his territory intimately and transforms his characters' unspeakable yearnings into the stuff of which Hollywood's dreams are made.

I wanted to write vignettes.

"We said, 'You write little vignettes that tell stories and create characters in three minutes that are much more theatrical than you might think.' "

He wrote vignettes of life in the barracks and sent them to The Charlotte News, where he had been features editor in civilian life.

Additionally, Finch wrote several satiric vignettes modelled after the short tales of French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine.

A man of great humor, Rosenkrantz wrote witty short stories and vignettes for a number of publications, including Esquire magazine.

He was superb at writing vignettes: 1,000 to 2,000 word stories.