“Passport”
by Deb Olin Unferth
Minor Robberies (2007)
* * (Okay) Realistic
A multitude of possibilities flood a woman’s mind when she is asked for her passport.
The story tries a little too hard to be clever with its format. The repeated “or” at the beginning of a seemingly endless collection of sentence fragments, the random – incomplete – story of searching for a forged Mexican passport, the eventual crux of the tale – the passport’s whereabouts in question: it all seems a trifle trite. It is a short, short story that could stand some trimming.
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