presentintension – experimental flash fiction by Cristóbal McKinney

Hello everyone, this is another experimental piece of fiction.  I’m not convinced this story is complete.  Expect to see another iteration of it, but I would love your comments.

I pick up a paper and I read it.  It tells a story.  I am in the story.

In the story, I pick up a paper and I read it.  I do not understand the story.  I read it again, because I want to understand.  But I do not believe I understand the story.

Dissatisfied, I discard the paper and continue to my destination.  I try to forget the story.  I believe I am successful.  When I arrive at my destination, I am satisfied to arrive.  At my destination, I do what I intend to do, until I do what I do not intend to do.  Having done the unintended, I consider my intentions.  Do I intend to do the unintended?  I do not believe I know.  No, I know.  I do not.

Outside the story, I do not like this story.  I do not read it again, because I do not like this story.  I put it in a recycle bin.  I forget about the story.  I continue to my destination.  When I arrive at my intended destination, I am dissatisfied.  I do what I intend to do.  I am dissatisfied.  I do not do what I do not intend to do.  I consider my dissatisfaction.  Am I dissatisfied with my present intension?  I do not believe I know.  I do not understand.  I want to understand, but I do not read the story again.

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2 Responses to presentintension – experimental flash fiction by Cristóbal McKinney

  1. I can’t believe I didn’t comment the first time I read it. I really love this one. It drew me in if only for the fact that in the short experience of reading something with almost no specific details whatsoever, it created in my mind a powerful visual image (obviously couched entirely in my own experience of within/without, intention/unintention). Good’n!

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