The landlord was resigned and philosophical, but corrected him: ‘They were not sausages. They were salamis.’

—- Lydia Davis, A Story of Stolen Salamis 

Meat Case – Italian Sausage and more

Lydia Davis is a well-known and acknowledged master of writing short short fiction. She was writing these before Flash Fiction even existed.

Today we have five of her works, all crackerjack – the first one is a tale of stolen salamis. Read them all and learn.

Read it here:

A Story of Stolen Salamis by Lydia Davis

From Five Dials