I'm mixing it up today and posting fiction! I think this is a first for the blog, but this is a previously unpublished short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I thought it was a creative and engaging story. I don't read a lot of fiction these days, so my powers of interpretation feel limited, but I'd love to hear your ideas!
"Thank You For the Light" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published in the New Yorker, August 6, 2012
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2012/08/06/120806fi_fiction_fitzgerald?currentPage=all
Eric - Long time reader, first time commenter. Great to see some fiction in here! I bet a lot of smokers can relate to the religious experience of getting that fix after circumstances conspire to an unreasonable delay.
ReplyDeleteFor any people who like Fitzgerald without the East Coast/Old Money feel, I recommend The Pat Hobby Stories; a series of funny shorts he wrote for Esquire in the 40s about an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who attempts in each installment to con the studio system out of another week of pay, usually with a backfiring result. The whole book is available online: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400821h.html