Matthew Sharpe works include The Sleeping Father, Jamestown, and You Were Wrong. He teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Matthew’s ongoing flash fiction project, Very short stories r us, has been active since May 2013.
Matthew Sharpe
Articles by Matthew Sharpe
Wednesday May 14
Brothers
“It’s just you and me now, Buddy”—which made the beatings more frightening, no one to intervene, nothing to stop him from hurting me but his own maimed morals.I never could think of what to say to my father on these visits so we just sat there in silence, me wanting to throw my chair through the window…