Tuesday, October 5, 2010

JOHN BARTH IS A BIG WHINER

[NOTE:  THIS WAS AN ENTRY INTO A QPBC FLASH FICTION CONTEST.  I WAS IN COLLEGE AT THE TIME, SO I WAS EXPOSED TO A BUNCH OF POST-MODERN BULLSHIT.  SOME OF YOU WILL GET THE JOKE, OTHERS WILL THINK I'M STUPID.  MAYBE BOTH.  BUT I GOT A CHUCKLE OUT OF IT.  SHIT, THIS INTRODUCTION IS LONGER THAN THE STORY.  I'LL SHUT UP NOW.]


The Quality Paperback Book Club says to write a story 55 words long.  Very difficult.  What should I do?  Stream of consciousness?  No.  I could go metafiction, but I don't want to be pretentious.  That's something John Barth would do, and he's a big whiner.  I'm too good for that.


Shit!  Piss!  Fuck!

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