What to Write This Week (10)

pop culture flash fiction

Reading: Read Taylor Swift by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, published in Gulf Coast Magazine.

This story won the 2015 Barthelme Prize. In his citation, judge Steve Almond wrote,

The story does what every great Barthelme story does: it casts a spell. It extradites us to a realm of strange wonders and incantatory rhythms in which we are forced to acknowledge that th…