Opposites

Inspiration

I originally wrote this story to submit to VSS Anthology 01.

Publications

However, the anthology weren't interested, so I tightened it up, reducing the word count to 12 so that it would fit the requirements for the Vestal Review Dirty Dozen, where it was indeed accepted.

Notes

Here's the original 20-word tweet-length story:

She was beautiful. She was sexy. She was made of anti-matter. We could have had such a blast together.

Which goes to show that there's always some fat you can shave off a story.