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Because

March 1, 2026 By Sherrie Flick

Because

Because she couldn’t see the model completely and because she was shy and because her pen had leaked all over her bag and because she’d had that crush on Ned and because Ned modeled sometimes, like tonight, and because she was, remember, essentially shy because her mother had coddled her and because Naomi had flaked and not showed because she had a migraine again because of plastics in the ocean and their leeching into our drinking water, she said, because of that Diane never really drew the whole figure, never saw Ned all at once.

About Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), a semi-finalist for the VCU First Novelist Award and two short story collections: Whiskey, Etc. and Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House Press). Named a 2016 Entropy best fiction book, Whiskey, Etc. won the Foreword INDIES bronze prize for best story collection and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer and Phillip McMath Post-Publication awards. “What It Would Look Like,” a story from Thank Your Lucky Stars was performed virtually for NYC’s Symphony Space in 2020. “Heidi is Dead” aired on NPR’s Selected Shorts in December 2022.

Her fiction is included in many anthologies and journals, including Norton’s Flash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction, and New Micro as well as Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, and Booth. Her third short story collection, I Have Not Considered Consequences, came out in April 2025 from Autumn House Press.

Artist Credit:

Brett J Barr is an artist/tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Orlando, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.

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