The competing headings — a room for one change

Original flash fiction · Invented characters · Useful disagreement

Ari wrote a sentence on the workshop board: “Two editors prefer different titles for the same article.” Nobody laughed. It was exactly the problem they had been avoiding.

A visitor added a suggestion beneath it: “Compare what each title promises to the intended reader.” Ari read it twice, then tried it on just one small part of the work.

The next morning the board was still untidy. One corner, however, showed an actual attempt instead of another promise.