Will Dewees: 2 books

We all have children, don’t we? Or know some? At least everyone can claim to have seen, or maybe just been, a child at some time or another. See whether you can find the child in this fourth collection of flasch fiction, Small cruelties of children. Some are easy. In other stories you have to make a little effort. But in a few you will have to find the child in yourself. Or not.

Twentyfive years ago in China, if you and I wanted to go to the end of the line, where people still looked up from their work in the fields when a bus went by, to villages where we’d see kids rush from their play to salute, for some reason, really stand at attention and salute, as we passed even...