"Button"

My flash fiction "Button" has been published in the April 2009 edition of Shoots and Vines. (Online here, or soon in print at select locations in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky.) My thanks to editor Crystal Folz for taking this one.

The story is pretty straightforward, so little explanation is needed other than to mention that it was inspired by archival photographs of the old LaSalle Street Station here in Chicago. I occasionally take Metra's Rock Island Line train to work, which disembarks at the new "LaSalle Street Station", which regrettably (to a throwback like me) is barely a train station at all - just outdoor platforms with a small adjacent waiting room, with none of the awe-inspiring glories of the stations of yore. Still, the new station provided just enough inspiration for me to create this little story.