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A piece of flash fiction that is exactly as described by the title.

My reactions included, but weren’t limited to: amusement, admiration at the chutzpah, feeling short-changed, remembering The Sixth Sense, the recent furore over Jens Haaning's Take the Money and Run, and Jean Miro’s minimalist painting of three thin wiggly lines on three white panels:

Image: Painting on White Background for the Cell of a Recluse I-II-III (1968) (Source)

Short story club

I read this in Black Water: The show more Anthology of Fantastic Literature, by Alberto Manguel, from which I’m reading one story a week with The Short Story Club, starting 4 September 2023.

You can read this story here.

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could be condensed a bit, whittled down, honed, a bit more focused, less Dickensian, terser, skeletal, Snoopy-like: dog of the Dark and Stormy Night, less pedantic, a tad verbose, long-winded