Newly settled in the suburbs, Toki invited her next-door neighbors the Conrads over for lunch.

Opting for simplicity, Toki served sushi on a table decorated with origami.

Later, Mr. Conrad complained to his wife, “The fish was undercooked and I nearly poked an eye out using those weird paper napkins.”

John H. Dromey has had flash fiction published in a number of anthologies (print and electronic), as well as online at The Fast-Forward Festival, Liquid Imagination, three minute plastic, and elsewhere.