<div dir="ltr">Heinz's "Death of a Racehorse" is <i>technically </i>journalism but reads like a story and is under 1000 words, which is a fairly common measure for whether something is or is not flash. Also one of the best ever pieces of sports writing, in my opinion, so that's a nice bonus.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:03 PM Borushko, Matthew via Sport_literature_association <<a href="mailto:sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu">sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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Does anyone have any suggestions for works of flash fiction that engage with sport in some way? I've had a lot of success teaching a few stories from John Edgar Wideman's
<i>Briefs</i> (<a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBriefs-John-Edgar-Wideman%2Fdp%2F0557310040&data=02%7C01%7Csport_literature_association%40lists.ku.edu%7Cb412051565f14dd18ae808d7937a3558%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637140025405463118&sdata=lSuFAjAh8dDm0CEF2EmVbLDO1hEtpzqU4qfVqnjB0kw%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.amazon.com/Briefs-John-Edgar-Wideman/dp/0557310040" shash="IeQObKwUVhd9spL+LlBwbwAQfhvtVopg3QVUZzFEph7pVvGPybyuqvhxFVQuF4Gycm2r+f4Yur4ITJfOQ50nAPbi7jdY0iBq53ORwl+FhgWoaMRX2AHutTO/iV3XVDy0CFPtr+hJGHFXa2vmFYSipqu5HKfecD9VITEbkyKWrYI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Briefs-John-Edgar-Wideman/dp/0557310040</a>) in the first weeks of my sports lit class and would love to
 have a few more authors on there.<br>
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