Frustrations typed, vented, deleted unposted. I type fears and hopes on Twitter, and suppress it, gone – no retweets, no favourites. Facebook is the better place for longer outpourings except the inevitable backlash of your friends and family, assuming you have any. I hone it, own it. Perfect my paragraphs. Words, words, words; hold CTRL, press A, then backspace for a blank space once again. If only you were easy to erase.
Santino Prinzi is currently an English Literature with Creative Writing student at Bath Spa University, and was awarded the 2014/15 Bath Spa University Flash Fiction Prize. His flash fiction and prose poetry has been published, or is forthcoming, in various places including Flash Fiction Magazine, the 2014 and 2015 National Flash Fiction Day anthologies, Unbroken Literary Journal, Spelk, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, and others. For more information check him out at www.tinoprinzi.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter: @tinoprinzi.
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