Category Archives: Flash

Flash Friday: Botox at Whitman-Walker

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Stefen Styrsky

Botox at Whitman-Walker I once went to the Whitman-Walker Clinic with Billy so he could get his Botox injections. The clinic was only a few blocks from his apartment, but he said he wasn’t feeling great and didn’t think he … Continue reading →

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A New Man

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Stefen Styrsky

A New Man Then there was this time Donnie and I sold drugs out of the Motel 6 on Georgia Avenue. We didn’t mean it to happen, but Donnie was staying there so he could be near his brother, Winchester, … Continue reading →

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Isaac Babel and Flash Fiction

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Stefen Styrsky

My short essay about Isaac Babel’s flash fiction is now up on SmokeLong Quarterly, a website dedicated to the form of flash. The essay is part of their “Flash, Back” series that “asks writers to discuss flash fiction that may … Continue reading →

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How Short Can a Story Be?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Stefen Styrsky

Hemingway’s apocryphal six-word story – “For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn.” — is justly famous. Not because he supposedly wrote it in mere seconds on a cocktail napkin in order to win a bet, but because it shows that a … Continue reading →

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