FLASH FICTION

The Photojournalist in the Rye

The camera never lies.

Dave Fymbo
Curiosity Never Killed the Writer
3 min readJun 17, 2020

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Some people could see the Virgin Mary. Some could see a map of New Jersey. I see raspberry jelly smeared into the fine grain of my kitchen table.

Some people could see a friend’s face. Some could see a penguin. But I just see a cloud. A cumulus humilis gliding slowly from southwest to northeast.

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