Peer review is complete. Short story author Thomas Sulley (Safe from the Things That Are Not) replied, “I like surprise endings. Maybe add more dialogue. If it turns out you wrote the story in ten minutes on the back of a DMV flyer, I am bug-eyed with the ease of your talent.”

“Fucking brilliant, ‘smiley-face with tears'” gave another, with intimate knowledge of the case.

Click here or on the image above to read A Most Long and Complicated Number, in Two Pages. I committed to the page length as creative parameter before setting to composition … which took more than ten minutes.