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Today’s Stor(ies) of the Day come from Kim Chinquee, a ridiculously talented writer whose work I have only recently discovered but am now devouring with purpose. Dubbed a “queen of flash fiction,” Chinquee’s collections, Oh Baby and Pretty, are worth some summer. 

From “It Was Hard to Get Off”:

“She put her wardrobe into boxes, and found a hooded sweatshirt from a track coach. Old and too big for her, and the last she heard her coach was Mafia. The shirt said Go, and she remembered him pushing her, saying she could do it. She found a shirt from an ex. She put it on. It was brown and cotton and from Mexico and she’d washed it too many times and it was too small and pinched her arms like the boyfriend.”