3am wake-up to catch a 5am flight. Don’t want to wake him yet, so I trod to the bathroom in the dark.
The splash of cold water on my cheeks is bracing and I cuss waking him anyway.
“Crap! I know, sorry!” He yells.
“What do you know?”
“I left the toilet seat up again.”
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Just having a little fun with today’s Friday Flash 55
Christ! You know what it is – just open the damn thing already!
I hold the daunting package in my white knuckled grip a few moments longer. Everything changes with this.
Carefully, I pull the seal, empty the contents and hold the book in my hands, officially going from dreamer to writer to…
Published author.
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Haven’t done this in a while – Friday Flash 55
What’s in a name? Shakespeare asks.
Clearly he was never subjected to the abject cruelty of schoolyard children to the poor child whose mama got a little thoughtless in the naming department. I’m also guessing one simply did not use a diminutive in those days. At least not one associated with male anatomy, right William?
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Another go at Flash Fiction, also called sudden fiction, micro fiction or nanofiction via Friday 55.
Write a story in exactly 55 words, then tell the G-Man!
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