i can't remember the last time i read a book book, meaning any piece of writing that's over 15 pages long. i have short attention span, so all i can handle are magazines and short story collections. i recently discovered flash fiction, which are stories even shorter than short stories (typically 1-2 pages long). and they keep shrinking: today i read 420 Characters by Lou Beach, an illustrator in LA who built a fan following by writing ultra brief stories as facebook status updates. here are a couple from his book:
"'Are you my mommy?' said the little blue egg. 'No, dear. You are a plastic trinket full of sweets,' said the brown hen. 'My baby is over there,' and she pointed to a pink marshmallow chick being torn apart and devoured by a toddler. The hen screamed and woke up, her pillow wet with sweat, the sheets twisted around her legs. 'Christ, I hate that dream.' She reached for a smoke."
"I live in the pocket of a bright paisley shirt- silk- and when the light is just so, I'm in my own private cathedral. I lie back and push out against the fabric with my feet, and the colored light falls in like kids' breakfast cereal. I lived in a canvas shirt once but the guy was always sweating so much it recalled that tent in Ireland near the sea where I first got this assignment."
"'Are you my mommy?' said the little blue egg. 'No, dear. You are a plastic trinket full of sweets,' said the brown hen. 'My baby is over there,' and she pointed to a pink marshmallow chick being torn apart and devoured by a toddler. The hen screamed and woke up, her pillow wet with sweat, the sheets twisted around her legs. 'Christ, I hate that dream.' She reached for a smoke."
"I live in the pocket of a bright paisley shirt- silk- and when the light is just so, I'm in my own private cathedral. I lie back and push out against the fabric with my feet, and the colored light falls in like kids' breakfast cereal. I lived in a canvas shirt once but the guy was always sweating so much it recalled that tent in Ireland near the sea where I first got this assignment."
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