I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children,...

This was a headline in today's RedEye: Modern Bromance. Anyone sensing next year's theme??? Ok, ok, so it was an article about best man friends who secretly want each other or something...

so, it's one in the morning and i have been working hard for hours. On what? My reading homework for grad school? The paper i have due? The story i have to turn in? Nope. I've been teaching myself flash over the last few weeks...