A Brief Encounter, a piece of flash fiction I wrote earlier this year, has been accepted for publication.
The piece will be published at 101 Words in August. The website publishes stories of exactly 101 words.
The story is about unrequited love and fantasy, and was originally the first part of a novella I intended to write. Exciting to see the first 101 words find their place. Maybe I’ll return to it one of these days!
With that said, one of the things I enjoyed with this is fitting an entire world into so few words. It’s not a slice of a novella but a character piece all of its own.
A Brief Encounter, which editors described as “beautifully bittersweet”, will be available on August 7.