Flash fiction

A flash fiction story can playfully reinterpret a classic novel. In “Gatsby Dies at the End,” Greg Luti follows a teacher who jokingly tells a student that The Great Gatsby is all a dream — only for the student to later repeat the same playful theory to his own English teacher. I am a pretty easygoing teacher, the kind of teacher who will look at the cover of Romeo and Juliet when the class begins and tell the kid that Romeo and Juliet die. I’d add a little note that Tybalt i

A flash fiction story can deliver sharp irony at a deathbed. In “Death of Michael Veil,” Greg Luti follows a detached legal consultant at the final moments of a renowned self-help philosopher — a man famous for preaching inner strength and self-determinism — only to witness a quietly ironic ending. Michael Veil was supposed to be dead when I got there. I was only there to sign some documents of his life away after he died. I wasn't supposed to see him die. In fact, I didn't k