‘The Lampshade Vendor’ is just two pages long, so I’ll take its lead and keep this brief. I’ll simply say that this was one of the first pieces of flash fiction I read that really captured my imagination and opened my eyes to the possibilities of the tiny story. It’s eccentric and tender, and it involves a flea circus.
Included in Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories, W.W. Norton, 1992, and collected in Saved by Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald and other stories, Livingston Press, 1997
A Personal Anthology 