New Yorker Fiction: “The Depletion Prompts” by David Means
“Write at least six versions of the story, using different points of view, until you realize that the one with the sad ending is impossible to finish.” Fiction by David Means. https://t.co/p4blZvUnn3
A series of paragraphs in the form of suggestions about how to write this story itself, complete with an audio reading by the author. David Means was a judge for our short story competition one year.
I was born in Dublin and made my way to London on a bike in my mid-twenties. It’s where I can still be found though ever further out, most recently as far as Harrow. I no longer own a bicycle.
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