Flashbacks

“Frank and the Shark”

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The best humor often comes from horrifying ironies. In Lauren Foss Goodman’s “Frank and the Shark,” Frank is not just an old man who doesn’t understand cell phones, as that would be too easy. Instead, she intertwines Frank’s fate with the shark – two solitary creatures on display, stranded, left to their own devices, and just barely hanging on to their remaining connections.

Read an excerpt.

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“Sandbar Shark”
Albuquerque Biopark, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0