Dear Editor,
Whilst perusing journals, I came across your website and read with interest your guidelines and recent entries of the story type.
I find myself fascinated by your distaste for the term “flash fiction”, and the irony of that aversion combined with your publication’s focus upon stories dealing with lady parts and dangly bits. You must admit, there is something flashy about a ripping good dangly bits yarn, particularly coupled with liberal descriptions of lady parts.
While I have nothing against such tales dealing with bits and parts, my own work focuses more on moist cicadas emerging succulent from slitted shells, trout sliming across palms to plunge into dark wet spaces, spears of asparagus thrusting from loam, the swell of ripe squashes, farmer’s hands greased black fondling tractor pistons and the rumps of slaughter cattle dancing through chutes. I think we can both agree there is nothing of bits or parts involved here.
As I said, I am not in the least disturbed by collections of stories dealing exclusively with dangly bits or lady parts, indeed, I sometimes wander the Internet looking for just such stories, though I’ve rarely found them presented in such a literary fashion.
I will refrain from submitting at this time, since my current work is at odds. But I think I may have something for you in the future, perhaps with both trout and lady parts.
Cordially yours,
Mrs. Wilma P. Snodderly
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