A piece of fic­tion writing—a short story, for example—has two dis­tinct ele­ments to it. The first we can call syn­chronic, which means exist­ing at one and the same time; the sec­ond is diachronic, which means exist­ing through time. <p>Or to put it another way, a piece of fic­tion writ­ing has both <em>structure</em> and <em>flow.</em></p> <p>Fiction […]

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Jason looks down and finds that it is indeed his wife beneath him, but that she is rot­ting. Her eyes are open but glazed over, star­ing up at him, with­out mean­ing, but bulging as though in ter­ror of him. The flesh on her face is yel­low­ish and drawn back toward her ears. Her mouth is […]

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