Perspective

This is the short story I wrote for the first round in the NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness Short Story Challenge. We got divided into groups, were given a genre and subject (in this case, Drama and ‘a going out of business sale’), and had a week to write a story fitting those constraints. Oh, and couldn’t go over 2500 words.

Here’s my effort:

I still don’t know how to explain that day properly. I left New York that morning as a top reporter on the politics beat, sent on a crap assignment I thought was completely wrong for me. An art sale, of all things. Who on earth cares about an art sale, anyway?

My editor tried to spin it like a normal gig. “What do you mean it’s not your area? It’s a sale: economics. That’s politics. And that’s your area.” The truth was this artist had requested me. Turns out she was famous in the art world and never gave interviews (except now, apparently), making this story irresistible to my editor.

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