October 28, 2023 – I appeared at the 1942 Tacos and Tequila restaurant near Ligonier, PA at an event by the Ligonier Valley Writers group (https://www.lvwonline.org/) honoring the winners of their flash fiction contest. No, I wasn’t a winner—I didn’t even enter—but I gave a talk on writing flash fiction and read my flash story WANT GOLD (https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/aliens/james-r-hardin/want-gold).