“I was trying to figure out ways to Shanghai teetotalers, when I remembered scratching my head used to help me concentrate. Unfortunately, I forgot about this,” the pirate said, holding up his right arm.

And that’s how Captain Hook explained his bandaged head to the crew of the Jolly Roger.

John H. Dromey has had flash fiction published in a number of print anthologies, as well as online at Liquid Imagination, three minute plastic, Thrillers, Killers ’n’ Chillers, and elsewhere.