The verbal snapshot, the anecdote, the New Yorker “Casual” is a staple of life in this city (“You wouldn’t believe what I just saw!”).
Recently there’s been a newfound interest in very short stories (usually a thousand words or less) referred to as “Flash Fiction.” Once this was a popular length for newspaper and magazine fiction and the pieces were called “Short-Shorts.” By the late ’50s that term was used by people my age for the pants girls wore in summer and boys wore for gym.
Here are three of mine.