...which, as you know, describes complete stories in a minimum of words. (Longer than "hint fiction," though.) So I thought of a new category, "found flash fiction," examples of which from the net and the papers might not all be fictional, but still are exquisite. Here's my first, which is actually the epitome or summary lead in to an article by Jami Attenberg in the NY Times;
I donated the three books I'd written to the cafe's free bookcase, and then I drove myself crazy, waiting to see if anyone would take them home.
Nice? The article itself is good but not necessarily better:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/a-shelf-obsessed-writer/?ref=opinion&gwh=3E1D11385F4AE41E8A34C46C62509076
Published on October 15, 2011 11:15