Just One Thing with Brooke Larson

Brooke Larson is the author of this month's featured flash fiction, and she's just as wonderfully talented with fashion as she is with words -- the dress you see is one she's working on. Here, she tells us one thing you otherwise know about her Split Lip story "Space Goggles":

"Recently I had the chance to perform this.  It’s part of a collection, “Origami Drama,” in which each piece interacts with the paper it’s written on.  I have fun reading them.  So there I am, having a good time, with this kinda creepy paper mask tied around my head with dental floss, when I start weeping.  Like, weeping hard, so I can’t speak.  Never saw that coming.  Yes, I had a great love that ended.  But what I wrote was not that.  What I wrote was, it seemed to me, pretty upbeat and whimsical.  So why was I crying?  That great love that was so dear to me and ended, ended flat and ugly.  We were awful at the end.  This piece imagines a different way of ending—a kind one, touched with the magic of a long perspective.  With the paper mask on, I could cry, I realized, for the possibility of generosity."