story: “Everyone Cried”
author: Lydia Davis
year: 2019
where: Our Tiny House in Oregon
note: From the 2019 NYer online Flash Fiction series
a line: “After lunch, we usually felt better, and the office was filled with its normal hum and bustle, people carrying folders and walking briskly here and there, sudden bursts of laughter rising from cubicles.”
theme(s): Work life, emotions, stress, routine
samantha Neugebauer 