How I ripped Dave Eggers off without even knowing it...

Lydia Davis freed me from the assumption that stories had to have a familiar arc and equally familiar length. So about two years ago I started jotting down notes for short short stories, most of them taking their cue from some small moment that I watched or thought about - usually something that wouldn't or couldn't find its way into a novel, and which didn't warrant a longer story. The results are very different from Davis's - hers are brilliant acts of philosophical origami, while mine are little moments in the lives of abnormal people.

And of course there's something very satisfying about beginning and finishing the writing of a story in one sitting.

-Dave Eggers regarding his weekly "short short stories" for The Guardian UK's Weekend magazine.

Un-fucking-believable. I wrote this about Dave Eggers' How We Are Hungry reminding me of Ribcage months and months ago and now I find out that he was writing weekly flash fiction pieces for over a year.

There's even a book compiling them out in the UK as well. It's 64 pages and selling for less than three US dollars, but International shipping of the little bastard brings it up to $15.

The good news is, they're all available to read online here.

I have some reading to do.

But first, I'm going to look at airplanes. I'll be back on Monday.