Flashnano 2023: Day 17! Homage to another great…

Day 17: Write a story in which a child must parent their elder


(Inspiration: In Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout tries to write a short story about meeting his father in heaven, but his father has decided to spend the afterlife as himself at nine-years-old while Trout enters heaven as a forty-four year old man. )


Today’s celebrity prompt comes from a fellow Coloradoan, the lovely and award-winning Kali Fajardo-Anstine!

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s first book isthe widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina (Random House, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, the Story Prize, the Saroyan International Prize, and winner of a American Book Award and a Reading the West Award in Fiction.

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https://www.kalifajardoanstine.com/


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