braingunk recently submitted a short story to Level4 magazine hopefully to be published soon.  The magazine bills itself as supplying "brain food for culture vultures" and is a great outlet and forum for creatives of all types.

The editor, who is an old friend, dropped the bombshell though that if they were to publish a story, it could be no longer than 500 words.

Another writer who was there at the time stated that they would find it very difficult to convey anything in 500 words , but I leapt at the challenge eagerly.

The story is now finished and to be honest getting it to fit into 500 words was indeed quite a task, but it's done now and I'm quite proud of it.  It's called The Familiar Stranger.