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by Peter McMillan
with Adam Mac
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Copyright
The 37 stories, vignettes, and apocryphal tales contained in this anthology are reprints of Peter McMillan's and Adam Mac's flash fiction that has been published on the Internet.
This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors' imagination or are used fictionally.
This anthology of short fiction by Peter McMillan and Adam Mac is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
For more information about the license, visit
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/> First published: 2014 (out of print)
Reprinted: 2023
Cover photograph: Ice Storm, Oakville, 2013, P. McMillan iii
For Otto
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The Hidden Job Market ................................................................... 1
The Writer Who Had to Write Big .................................................... 5
The Efficiency Ombudsman ............................................................ 7
Back to the Start ........................................................................... 11
Nanobits ........................................................................................ 12
The Outlet ..................................................................................... 13
Ceteris Paribus ............................................................................. 16
Supply and Demand ..................................................................... 18
Dry Land ....................................................................................... 21
A Drifter's Tale .............................................................................. 22
Hindsight ....................................................................................... 26
A Christmas Dinner Tableau ......................................................... 29
The Recluse .................................................................................. 31
It Was Really Nothing ................................................................... 34
Splitting the Lottery ....................................................................... 36
Evensteven ................................................................................... 38
Bear Country ................................................................................. 42
The Game ..................................................................................... 46
The Doctor's Office ....................................................................... 52
I Definitely Need That ................................................................... 55
Going My Way? ............................................................................ 59
Excuse Me, You Seem to Have Fallen Asleep on My Shoulder .... 63
The Reading Room ....................................................................... 65
I Couldn't Help Overhearing .......................................................... 67
Can't Get It Outta My Head ........................................................... 72
The Box......................................................................................... 76
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The End ........................................................................................ 79
A Suitable Man of the People ........................................................ 82
Skin-Deep ..................................................................................... 85
Milt, Mo, and the Money Machine ................................................. 89
Stories by Adam Mac .................................................................... 92
The Dissertation ............................................................................ 93
The Escape ................................................................................... 97
Improvisation ............................................................................... 101
The Recruit ................................................................................. 104
In the Beginning We Did Have Someone on the Ground ............ 108
Real Estate ................................................................................. 111
Revolting Characters .................................................................. 115
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