I'm not sure McSweeney's gets enough credit for how many of its articles are also excellent flash fiction.
"We’ll just be here a minute because all things in life are temporary and hummingbird babies grow up and take off quickly. Gone, bitties, gone. No 'Can I come home for holidays?'—no nothing. Everybody just leaves for good, and then we crawl into a quiet bush and die, OKAY?"
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“Listen, I’m just gonna be here on your doorknob for a little while longer, two weeks tops. Don’t be a jerk about it, okay? Two weeks is one-sixth of my litt...