the ways you won’t ask how you can help” (Anderson 33). This ending line makes the reader feel hopeful that eventually the man, (you), may be able to help the woman. One of the strongest examples of emotional writing pieces in “Flash Fiction Forward” is “Bullhead”. The author writes of her mother’s first and truest love in the world. The mother made love once to the boy and the next day he moved away, leaving her to never see him again. This fact in itself is sad, but the story progresses and we learn that every year the mother goes on a trip without her husband to the lake that now covers her hometown, and drops in a penny in memory of the boy. The short story ends with the line, “ Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this
