<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">By the way, here's a piece of journalism (by Norman Mailer) that can function (more or less) as flash fiction:</font>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> Paret was a
Cuban, a proud club fighter who had become welterweight champion because of his
unusual ability to take a punch. His
style of fighting was to take three punches to the head in order to give back
two. At the end of ten rounds, he would
still be bouncing, his opponent would have a headache. But in the last two years, over fifteen-round
fights, he had started to take some bad maulings.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> This fight
had its turns. Griffith won most of the
early rounds, but Paret knocked Griffith down in the sixth. Griffith had trouble getting up, but made it,
came alive and was dominating Paret again before the round was over. Then Paret began to wilt. In the middle of the eighth round, after a
clubbing punch had turned his back to Griffith, Paret walked three disgusted
steps away, showing his hindquarters.
For a champion, he took much too long to turn back around. It was the first hint of weakness Paret had
ever shown, and it must have inspired a particular shame, because he fought the
rest of the fight as if he were seeking to demonstrate that he could take more
punishment than any man alive. In the
twelfth, Griffith caught him. Paret got
trapped in a corner. Trying to duck
away, his left arm and his head became tangled on the wrong side of the top
rope. Griffith was in like a cat ready
to rip the life out of a huge boxed rat.
He hit him eighteen right hands in a row, an act which took perhaps
three or four seconds, Griffith making a pent-up whimpering sound all the while
he attacked, the right hand whipping like a piston rod which has broken through
the crankcase, or like a baseball bat demolishing a pumpkin. I was sitting in the second row of that
corner—they were not ten feet away from me, and like everybody else, I was
hypnotized. I had never seen one man hit
another so hard and so many times. Over
the referee's face came a look of woe as if some spasm had passed its way
through him, then he leaped on Griffith to pull him away. It was the act of a brave man. Griffith was uncontrollable. His trainer leaped into the ring, his
manager, his cut man, there were four people holding Griffith, but he was off
on an orgy, he had left the Garden, he was back on a hoodlum's street. If he had been able to break loose from his
handlers and the referee, he would have jumped Paret to the floor and whaled on
him then and there.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-4.0pt"><font size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> And
Paret? Paret died on his feet. As he took those eighteen punches something
happened to everyone who was in psychic range of the event. Some part of his death reached out to
us. One felt it hover in the air. He was still standing in the ropes, trapped
as he had been before. He gave some
little half-smile of regret, as if he were saying, "I didn't know I was
going to die just yet," and then, his head leaning back but still erect, his
death came to breathe about him. He
began to pass away. As he passed, so his
limbs descended beneath him, and he sank slowly to the floor. He went down more slowly than any fighter had
ever gone down, he went down like a large ship which turns on end and slides
second by second into its grave. As he
went down, the sound of Griffith's punches echoed in the mind like a heavy ax
in the distance chopping into a wet log.</font></div>
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<font size="3" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">--Ron Smith</font><br>
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To: Borushko, Matthew <mborushko@stonehill.edu>; sport_literature_association <sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu><br>
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Subject: Re: [ARETE] sports flash fiction?<br>
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<div>Matt,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'm joining the immodest crowd, and especially Ron Smith, who refers to the brevity of some poetry. In the past several years, I have published two collections of poetry. One is a chapbook (Hoosiers the Poems) of only basketball poems, published by Palooka Press, and the other a full-length collection (Headhunting and Other Sports Poems), a wide variety of sports poems, published by Turning Point Books. My memoir, Outside Shooter, about my playing days with Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, and as a victim (I was on the losing team!) in the Hoosiers movie. Some of that might work for you.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Phil Raisor<br clear="none">
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On January 6, 2020 at 10:47 AM "Borushko, Matthew via Sport_literature_association" <sport_literature_association@lists.ku.edu> wrote:
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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
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