The kid in our class who looked like the famous actor was dubbed “Mistaken for Bacon,” which became “MFB” and then “Notorious MFB.” Years later, at a reunion, nobody knew what happened to him. At one point, I said MFB froze to death. Six degrees, get it, but nobody did.

Thus far in 2020, Jon Fain’s fiction has been published by 50-Word Stories, A Story in 100 Words, Blue Lake Review, (mac)ro(mic), Flash Flood Journal, Potato Soup Journal, Wilderness House Literary Review, and others. He lives in Massachusetts, and on Twitter @jonsfain.