The Appointment
- Bookrix 2012 Flash Fiction 3rd Place Award!
- NPR Weekend Edition "Three Minute Fiction" Submission, Round 7 -
(Prompt: Submissions must have a character come to town and someone leave town. Each piece of writing has to be read in less than three minutes, so no longer than 600 words.
More info at: http://www.npr.org/series/105660765/three-minute-fiction)
Here's a link to the NPR Round 7 Winners program:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=142264396&m=1422750433
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“Jack, did you say?
You're probably asking for me. John Wilson. Right there – line
number 7. What's that? No, sorry, don't know him. Not personally,
anyway. He disappeared about 6 months ago, from what I've heard. The
same day I arrived in town, as a matter of fact.
“I look a lot like him?
Yeah, I get that a lot. That gets pretty annoying sometimes, let me
tell you! By all accounts he was a loser. How do I know? I looked
into it a bit. He had the same dead-end job for 25 years. Nervous,
hypertensive type. Didn't have many friends. And those he did have
were anchored to the same row of barstools every night.
