Monday Microfiction: "No Imagination"

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This week's microfiction is an 80-word story about a teacher's lasting words.

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No Imagination

“You have no imagination,” my tenth-grade English teacher told me. She delivered her words clinically, like a diagnosis, after reading a short story I wrote for class. I imagine she had been a fine teacher once, but her spark had long since faded.

Anyhow, I knew she was wrong because I had no problem imagining all manner of horrors befalling her. Her words stuck, though. The careless words always do.

Thank you for awarding me this Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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