Ekphrastic Flash Fiction

Story by Pamela Painter
Animated/Narrated by Anthony Russo

Pamela Painter has had stories published in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Ploughshares. A three-time Pushcart Prize winner, Painter is a professor for the Writing, Literature & Publishing program at Emerson College. “Office at Night” was published in Smokelong Quarterly in 2009. 

Anthony Russo is a freelance illustrator living in Rhode Island. His clients include The New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. His illustrations have brought him awards from Graphis, Society of Illustrators, and American Illustration Arts. Additionally, he has taught at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons.

Edward Hopper, “Office at Night” 1940, oil on canvas, 22-3/16″ x 25-1/8″ was a gift of the T.B. Walker Foundation, Gilbert M. Walker Fund to Collection Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.