In two flash fiction pieces by Ruth Joffre, the Seattle author explores the fears and anxieties surrounding raising children--and the lies and narratives we spin out to cope with introducing them to a complicated world. Accompanying artwork by Seattle artist and illustrator Clare Johnson.
Tag: flash fiction
Three-Minute Zone
"If you’re at the county hospital parked in the three-minute pull-out by that new clinic building, and the employee you’re picking up doesn’t come out, you see an opera. Verismo." Flash fiction by Seattle-based writer Valerie Trueblood.