That’s not how, she said, and then she showed me.

This ten word story was typed on a portable electric Smith-Corona dating from the late 1960s, but I’m afraid that I never named it or even tried to determine its gender. Grove Koger

Idaho native Grove Koger is the author of When the Going Was Good: A Guide to the 99 Best Narratives of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure (Scarecrow Press) and has published short fiction in Skive, Phantasmacore, Lacuna, Two Words For, Danse Macabre, and Eternal Haunted Summer. He contributes regularly to Laguna Beach Art Patron and Palm Springs Art Patron magazines and is Associate Editor of Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal.

Photo credit: Grove Koger