title: Flash of the Pen: Twenty-Two Very Short Stories One Haiku
author:  Debrah Strait 
description: Debrah Strait lives in Bisbee, Arizona, where she writes very short stories, and rather long novels about pirates and dragons.
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  ### FAY WELDON
  
  
  # _A Hard Time To Be a Father_
  
  
  A collection of short stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [Cover](001-coverpage.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](002-titlepage.html)
  
  
  [Skipping Rhyme](004-skippingrhyme.html)
  
  
  [Out of the Past](005-part1.html)
  
  
  [The Ghost of Potlatch Past](006-chapter1.html)
  
  
  [Once in Love in Oslo](007-chapter2.html)
  
  
  [Come on, Everyone!](008-chapter3.html)
  
  
  [Into the Future](009-part2.html)
  
  
  [Web Central](010-chapter4.html)
  
  
  [GUP – or Falling in Love in Helsinki](011-chapter5.html)
  
  
  [Not Even a Blood Relation](012-chapter6.html)
  
  
  [Moving On](013-part3.html)
  
  
  [Move Out: Move On](014-chapter7.html)
  
  
  [New Year’s Day](015-chapter8.html)
  
  
  [Inspector Remorse](016-chapter9.html)
  
  
  [Mother Speaking](017-part4.html)
  
  
  [My Mother Said](018-chapter10.html)
  
  
  [A Libation of Blood](019-chapter11.html)
  
  
  [Knock-Knock](020-chapter12.html)
  
  
  [Other Places, Other Genders](021-part5.html)
  
  
  [Spirits Fly South](022-chapter13.htm