Three-Minute Fiction

I participated in NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest for February. To be precise, I wrote 600 words in about half an hour just before the deadline. The first I’d heard of it was when Weekend Edition said “last chance!” So I thought, “what the heck? It can’t hurt.” I’ve been having a lot of trouble with what my mom calls the “butt glue” lately. That is, the thing that gets you to sit down, turn off the TV, close the browser, and just write. I figured I wouldn’t have a shot in Hell of winning against thousands of entries that had...