What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski

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I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are usually on the thousand-word border. The main thing is, I want to tell stories: about people and what they do, or about myself and what I do, and I want to comment on those stories in obvious or less obvious ways.

The manner in which these stories are told is also import...