Colour me mildly envious; it takes me about the same amount of time to get a 6,000 word short story right as it does to get a good through draft of a 130,000 word novel, and doing the novel is much easier. Which does not make it easy to build up a body of work to betrying to sell.
I understand the shortest theater review on record was by Walter Kerr, for "I Am a Camera" by John van Druten. The complete text (http://www.bartleby.com/63/84/9184.html):
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Date: 2004-03-30 10:31 am (UTC)no!
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Date: 2004-03-30 11:45 am (UTC)That depends
Date: 2004-03-30 12:30 pm (UTC)Also, if I need to cut something to fit--or expand it to fill space--that's extra work, in either direction.
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Date: 2004-03-30 10:48 pm (UTC)"Me no Leica."