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Hi Tom, Alana and Christine!
Wow, so many things to say. I really enjoyed this episode. About flash fiction: I was interested in how you disagreed with the idea that it's not about a short attention span, that flash requires MORE from a reader, rather than less. I liked how the piece you read about the man and the woman reached forward and backwards into the past and the future, but the narrative was all in the present (if that makes sense.) It really requires a lot from the reader to imagine both the past and the future.

I also liked the genre bending nature of your memoir / fiction. It says a lot about the nature of memory--all memoirs are the memories of memories, but your piece uses that as a strength, rather than trying to hide it with lots of interviewing. I wondered if you had read "We Didn't Come Here For This," by William Patrick, a memoir in poetry. I think you would enjoy it, for its genre-bending nature, and how he speaks in his parents' voice so much. Maybe I could give it to Tom next time I see him. :D

Okay, thanks for giving me something awesome to listen to while I did cross stitch on this rainy Sunday.
Love,
Cat Ennis Sears

Thanks very much for your kind comment. I do find the 50's lesbian subculture a fascinating background for this sort of fiction, and I am having a lot of fun exploring it. I only hope that I can render it accurately.

I should say that some authors have already written mysteries set in the 50's lesbian world, but these have been humorous, campy pieces. The difference is that I am trying to write this as seriously as I can (though I do have some wisecracks in the dialogue, of course). Crime happened in that world, and crime is always serious.