Connie Chang and James M. Blakemore write for a living, but not the fun kind (they’re lawyers). They also do the fun kind though! Their story, “The Date,” won the 10th Annual NYC Midnight Flash Fiction competition.

Their fiction and nonfiction have appeared in notebooks, .doc and .docx files, WordPerfect way back when (oh, and that reminds me, Xanga), Google Drive, gChat, text messages, and emails.

Longtime solo writers, Chang and Blakemore began collaborating in 2018, which has helped them get rid of those sentences and clauses they’re attached to but that don’t work for anyone else.