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"The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week."
Embedded within a newspaper article by poet Robert Pinksy is Robert Hass's prose poem "Story About the Body". Or not poem, one might argue, but flash fiction piece. Or one might argue, not flash fiction but a very short story. What's the difference? Good question.
Embedded within a newspaper article by poet Robert Pinksy is Robert Hass's prose poem "Story About the Body". Or not poem, one might argue, but flash fiction piece. Or one might argue, not flash fiction but a very short story. What's the difference? Good question.
For today, the work will be a short story and one that definitely, in its writing and reading, is a celebration of the form--since, of course, the title itself draws attention to the form. So, without further ado, here is the story for Day 27 of National Short-Story Month, from his collection Human Wishes,
by Robert Hass
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