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Hey @corkybookworm,

Sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into your stories. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to balance a short story and with fantasy. There’s the detail that it takes to build an imaginary world and immerse the reader in it and then there’s the brevity of the short story. Best of wishes to you with both of your stories!

I guess I haven’t thought of making it into a short story. In my mind, it seemed a little too short to make into a short story, and I seem to do better with poetry anyway. It’s simple enough: Houdini, the master of illusions, had a trick where someone would punch him in the gut and he’d be fine. One day, someone punches him while he’s reclining backstage and it hurts. It continues to hurt until he falls unconscious during a show. He thinks it was the punch that’s hurting so bad, so he continues, but it’s really a ruptured appendix, which he eventually dies from. The words just aren’t coming to me.