Last day of National Short Story Week and my final recommendation is a Dave Eggers story that highlights how a short stories last line should provide some sort of payoff to the reader. Not necessarily a twist. In fact I prefer an image that sticks with you, or an emotional moment that resonates back through the story, or in the case of ‘A Fork Brought Along’ a laugh out loud moment of revelation.
Read the brilliantly observed and painfully funny ‘A Fork Brought Along’ here.
Dan Powell 
One Response to Week of Stories – Day 7
I agree completely, a twist is not a necessary element of a short story or flash. It just needs to deliver some sort of punch at the end.
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