Flash Fiction Story 1

"Chasing Death" by Kimberly Holt-Whitlock
http://www.wingedhalo.com/mag/chasing.html

Analysis: This short story has three characters, a little girl and her mother and father. The setting of the story is centered around the departure of a mother and the broken heart of the daughter. The obvious conflict had to be stationed around the mother and the father, but the reason is not clear. At the surface the story seems simplistic, mother leaves family. But the title and the father's last line leaves the reader to question who's chasing death. Could it be the mother leaving in a symbolic black car or the daughter chasing the black car? It's up to your interpretation.