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In the comic industry, a one-shot is a piece that is created as a pilot comic or stand-alone story. These single issues are usually emblazoned with a "1" on the cover despite the fact that it is only a series of one. Many artists publish one-shots to test a possible new story, or to express information that would not fit with the story arc of a multiple-issue monthly series, particularly a long-running regular series.
In the Japanese manga industry, the same concept is expressed by the term yomikiri (読み切り), which implies that the comic is presented in its entirety, without any continuations.
Since the rise in popularity of online posting of prose fiction and poetry, which are often written in short chapters resembling comic book issues, the term "one-shot" has also become popular for describing self-contained works of electronic literature that are only a single chapter in length.
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