Papa and Me

For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn

is a haunting short story by Ernest Hemingway. It is an extreme example of one of my favorite types of writing -- flash fiction.

I just myself wrote a similar classic tale tonight, in the first person no less. Here it is:

I just ate my little toe off. Tasted good, but now I lose my balance a lot.

A good night's work indeed. Now I'm off to Key West for some fishing and heavy drinking!