“And as any Buddhist will tell you, a human being…cannot exist for even a few seconds of time on planet earth without desiring something.

“Yearning for something…suggests the deepest level of desire…”

- excerpted from the essay, “A Short Short Theory” by Robert Olen Butler, from the book Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, Rose Metal Press [buy | borrow]


Drawing by R. B. Kitaj, 1991

[n\h/t to Awesome People Reading for the image...]

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