Convincing middle schoolers to read is a challenge. Yes, there are those token few who plow through the classroom library before winter break, but the majority have some unrealistic phobia of the written word -- well the written word outside social media, that is. Add that to this new distance learning phenomena that has forcibly swept our nation and we have a disaster. That being said, I think I found a gap in the middle school resolve. Flash Fiction and options! The coolest part of flash ficti