Greetings, Story Club.

I’m in the middle of my very last round of edits/corrections on the new book, a novel called Vigil, that comes out on January 27, 2026. Always a harrowing time for someone with my level of, well, obsessiveness: the last time I can change anything.

Good lord.

But don’t worry about me! I’ve been here before. I’m sure all will be well. :)

You can pre-order the finished product here.

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I thought it might be fun this week to turn our attention to the most difficult version of the most difficult form: the short-short story or “flash fiction.” It’s very hard to get something so short to do the work of a story, but here are four pretty good examples for us to discuss: