Fiction in the post-#MeToo Era

Fiction in the post-#MeToo Era

Story by Crowdsourcing and the #WithoutExpiration Exhibition

Los Angeles, California, November 30, 2019—A trend spread across Los Angeles today, but it didn’t start with hashtags scrolling across the screens of phones and smart devices. Commuters and shop-goers and even people going to Pasadena City Hall were confronted by cardboard signs not asking for money or food, but instead broadcasting misdeeds. “Cheated on my taxes,” “Neglected my dog,” even “Was careless with a heart,” were seen throughout the southland, all signed with the hashtag #WithoutExpiration.

Onlookers were left with a lot of questions, which was precisely the point of the exhibitions, according to author William R. Hincy. Timed to coincide with the release of his short story collection, Without Expiration, the exhibition was meant to question our notions of moral authority and righteous indignation. Similarly, the book ponders how we move forward as a society when every transgression is chronicled in perpetuity.

Featuring work published in some of America’s best short fiction journals, Without Expiration has been described as turning the short story form inside-out. Author T.D. Johnston, winner of the International Book Award for Friday Afternoon and Other Stories, says, “Hincy’s stories reveal the wisdom, versatility, and human understanding of an author the world needs.”

Without Expiration is available in print and ebook today. To learn more about the #WithoutExpiration exhibition and read the short story “When Angels Get High” that inspired it, visit williamrhincy.com.

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Ordering Info
ISBN: 978-17327579-0-5 (print), 978-17327579-1-2 (ebook)
Publisher: Whiskey-Winged Lit

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