*From Breath and Shadow: Six Sentence Stories, Mad Hat Press, 2024 co-authored with Robert Scotellaro
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By Meg Pokrass
As part of the Stanislavky acting method, and to get into our roles, we nuns walked casually over to a local cemetery where dead people lived. It was as close to a nunnery as we could get. We smoked and we tried not to get depressed. We sat near the tombstones and bonded with dead people. I sat near the stone of a woman named Angela Mary Jones, who died at age 43. I imagined myself at age 43, alive yet dead, married to someone who desired me for having failed at the roles I loved most.
Meg Pokrass is the author of Breath and Shadow: Six Sentence Stories (with Robert Scotellaro), First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories(Dzanc Books, 2024) and eight previous collections of flash fiction and two novellas in flash. Her work has been published in three Norton anthologies, including Flash Fiction America, New Micro, and Flash Fiction International; Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50; and hundreds of literary magazines. Meg is the founding editor of Best Microfiction.
