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from SoFloPoJo Flash #38 - Aug 2025 |
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NOAH PRATT WRITES A STORY
Stories tell us who we are Mrs. Marsden says to her fourth grader Noah Pratt.
Noah Pratt says stories are stupid.
Pratt says he don’t read stories.
Then write a story Mrs. Marsden says.
Noah Pratt writes a story.
Noah Pratt writes fourth grade sucks.
Noah Pratt writes Comfort Rooms suck.
Noah Pratt writes Ms. Beemer’s comfort sucks.
Noah Pratt writes call me Dungeon Master.
Noah Pratt writes my DM friends live in my closet.
Noah Pratt writes my DM friends protect me.
Noah Pratt says this story is dumb.
Write how your DM friends protect you and what from Mrs. Marsden says.
Noah Pratt writes this story is not about me.
Noah Pratt writes this story doesn’t have any more stories.
Noah Pratt puts an X at the end of this line.
Noah Pratt says read this story and die.
By Noah Pratt.
PAMELA PAINTER is the award-winning author of five story collections. Her stories appear in numerous journals and anthologies, and have been included in Four Norton Anthologies, Best Microfictions, Best Short Fictions, and have received four Pushcart Prizes. Painter’s stories have also been featured on NPR, YouTube, and staged by WORDTheatre in LA, London and New York. Painter is a Founding Donor of the Flash Fiction Archive, established in 2020 at the Harry Ransom Center, Univ. of Texas, Austin. Pamela Painter WRITER