Tales from the Defrag

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Flash Fiction #45

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Alexander Ipfelkofer
Jun 09, 2025
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Robinson meets Friday (Source)

The Exercise

During my Creative Writing studies at Cambridge, we did this exercise, which I liked and had never done before: Write no more than 500 words from the POV of a bystander or secondary character from a famous work of fiction.

What to choose? There are so many possibilities. I was contemplating Daniel Defoe’s Robinso…

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