110. At a Supermarket in Japan
July 18, 2008
I’m busy today with my quote real job unquote. So please enjoy this thing, which was first published on the awesome blog sixsentences.
He holds up a packet of chocolate-flavored instant ramen; “We have to get this,” he says. Aloe juice, mushroom cookies, sugary squid jerky: even if all you saw was our basket, you’d know we were foreigners, or children. We reach for the most ready-to-eat tidbits and the gaudiest packages. Meanwhile, old ladies, natives here, buy the big, plain bags of dried sardines. Do they use them for soup? I wish something stranger than us would happen here: a pterodactyl crashing through the front door, or a bear picking up bottles of shampoo between two of its claws.
image: ♥ he@rt ♥ on flickr
I’m on 6S Today
June 12, 2008
Six Sentences is a web (and print) publishing project that provides exposure to new writers who play with the short prose form. Every piece in the 6S scope is six sentences long. I’ve been a reader for several weeks, and the range of styles and material that shows up on the 6S blog is inspiring.
Today, the 6S editors posted six sentences of mine: a fictional thing called “At a Supermarket in Japan,” which I’ve never published to Story a Day. Go read it!
I’ll still get a new story up here later today.
image: Darwin Bell on flickr
