The Runner

Flash fiction

Farago met Nelson at Stumpy’s Store and sold the acreage straight way. *photo loc.gov

Creative writing. Flash fiction. The art of compressing the many into the few. Like finding the man on the moon, some say it is a man leaning on a fork, on which he is carrying a bundle of sticks picked up on a Sunday. Shakespeare could do flash fiction, write a sparse few words and convey at complete story. Flash fiction, for my part, for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature submissions, needs to be 750 words or less…