Flash Memoir: ‘Spinster’

Note: I’m off hiking at Point Reyes National Seashore this week, so I’ve posted one of the stories from my flash fiction collection, Flashes of Illumination . This is what I call flash memoir: a type of creative nonfiction built on things that happened to the author. I’m working on more of these.

I wrote this story ten years ago. I’m still not married, but I am in a serious relationship these days.

Spinster

by Nancy Jane Moore

I got my first cat when I was 19. My grandmother said, “Oh, dear, you’...