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Issue 17: 29 Jan. 2023
Microfiction: 101 words
By Daryl Scroggins

How’s Anybody Going to Know

 

Mr. Funny Bullet glides by in his pumped-up convertible. He stops, lets it down, and parks his look on us. Doesn’t have to ask if we have sold anything. All of us kids wanting money for the good shoes. Who wants to run from opportunity? One afternoon’s work and everything can finally be perfect. But then the Bullet doesn’t get gone fast enough when SWAT comes, and we scatter. Meet back at the house, laughing. Until Kevin finds the hole in our stash sack and we look out at a long trail of dime bags.

Daryl Scroggins
Issue 17 (29 January 2023)

has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of North Texas, and the Writer’s Garret, in Dallas. He now lives in Marfa, Texas. He is the author of This Is Not the Way We Came In, a collection of flash fiction and a flash novel (Ravenna Press), Winter Investments: Stories (Trilobite Press), and Prairie Shapes: A Flash Novel (winner of the 2004 Robert J. DeMott Prose Contest). His poems, short stories, and creative nonfictions have appeared in magazines and anthologies across the country, including Blink Ink, Cutbank, Eastern Iowa Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Star 82 Review, and Third Wednesday, among others.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

Roadshow, microfiction by Daryl Scroggins in MacQueen’s Quinterly, aka MacQ (Issue 15, September 2022); one of three pieces by Scroggins selected as Finalists in “The Question of Questions” Ekphrastic Writing Challenge

Spring, microfiction by Scroggins in MacQ (Issue 12, March 2022)

Writer Boy, microfiction in MacQ (Issue 4, July 2020); nominated by MacQ for Best Microfiction 2021

Face of the Deep, ekphrastic prose poem in MacQ (Issue 3, May 2020)

Field Trips, flash fiction by Scroggins in KYSO Flash (Issue 12, Summer 2019)

New to School, microfiction in Eclectica (Jan/Feb 2018)

Two Fictions: “Almost Baptized” and “Against the Current” in New Flash Fiction Review (Issue 10, January 2018)

Eight Stories: A Mini-Chapbook by Daryl Scroggins at Web del Sol

 
 
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