The endless introduction — a room for one change

Original flash fiction · Invented characters · Things we can finish

Ari wrote a sentence on the workshop board: “An introduction keeps expanding because its purpose is unclear.” Nobody laughed. It was exactly the problem they had been avoiding.

A visitor added a suggestion beneath it: “Define the question it must help the reader enter.” Ari read it twice, then tried it on just one small part of the work.

The next morning the board was still untidy. One corner, however, showed an actual attempt instead of another promise.