Peter Cole and the others at Keyhole just don't ever stop coming up with new ideas. Doing their best to make the people of Nashville the most literate in the United States, they've come up with the Keyhole Digest - on a monthly basis, they'll fit as many stories and poems as they can onto the front and back of a single sheet of paper. It will be lined up so it can be folded into thirds, like you'd fold a letter you were mailing. It will then be handed out, left behind at coffee houses, etc.
The May 2009 Keyhole Digest includes the flash fiction, "Two Weeks and One Day", by Chad Simpson. Chad has published widely and his experience shows through in this new effort. The story, a mere 271 words, ends:
She wonders: What language do they speak in Tunisia?
What color is the natives’ skin?
Where do the people there fly off to when they want to get away from things, when they want to wake up one day and find themselves, just like that, in an entirely different world?
After a very brief conversation, and some thoughts about her forthcoming trip to Tunisia, these are the thoughts the young lady is having. That killer of a final sentence just completely sums up the entire story without making the previous 250 or so words useless.
If Keyhole continues to put stuff like this, and the other flashes and poems jammed onto this sheet of paper, they'll slowly start converting those in Nashville that reading is essential.
Great journal, great story, great review!
Posted by: Eugene Cross | May 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM