My pet peeve, I told my writing class, is a story that starts with, I woke up and . . . Why not start later, in the middle of the morning, with the action? But after my class, at 11:59 a.m., I reconsidered my writing teleology.
The Library’s closure went largely unremarked, apart from a segment or two on the nightly news.
New flash fiction by Pamela Painter, Lydia Davis, Bruce Holland Rogers, Edgar Omar Avilés, Daryl Scroggins, Robert Scotellaro, Ana María Shua, Stuart Dybek, Robert Lopez, Eric Rugara, Alicita Rodríguez, Peter Orner, Josip Novakovich, Kuzhali Manickavel, Joseph Starr, Claudia Smith Chen, Tania Hershman, and Pedro Ponce.
They had to live, didn’t they? Well, didn’t they? Didn’t they?