Editor:
"Damn," I muttered, putting down the paper. "I missed the deadline again. Third year running."
"What, that mini fiction contest?" she asked. ("Flash Fiction 2021," Dec. 23.)
"Yeah," I replied, pondering this latest failure. A few beats, then: "But I've got this great idea for a story. It would be called 'Better Late than Never.'"
"No matter what you call it, missing the deadline means it doesn't get published."
"Unless," I said, staring off in the middle distance of our kitchen. "Unless I somehow ... repackage it."
"As?"
"As a letter to the editor."
Richard Engel, Arcata
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