Longlisted for the Quiet Man Dave Flash Fiction Prize, Oct 2020 https://www.mmu.ac.uk/qmdprize/finalists-and-winners/ It was Eckstein’s idea, the duck. Who’d miss it? Sure, when it was alive it had golden feathers and a long, sad call. I certainly had nothing against it. But dead it was meat, chestnut-sweet and pink on the plate. Eckstein said all …