• David Foster Wallace: Depression and Achievement
  A foible of neurology that keeps us from meeting our own high standards consistently can put us in a terrible bind. Our options are to (a) try, fail, and struggle to avoid becoming utterly defeated; (b) fail to try and struggle with self-loathing; (c) try with every ounce of effort we can summon, succeed, and leave ourselves too exhausted to succeed again, or to want to try; (d) lower our standards and meet them, but struggle with the thought that we have cheated ourselves and the world of our best.
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• Flash Fiction by Bruce Holland Rogers
  Just what is a short-short story? Or perhaps you prefer the term sudden fiction. Or flash fiction. Maybe in your view these three terms actually describe very different categories of writing, and you’re irritated that I’m treating them as the same thing. We’re barely four sentences into this first column, and at least a few readers are already disagreeing with my choice of terms.
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