“Help me, Doctor!” yelled Harry.

“What’s the problem?”

“I can’t write 50-word stories.”

“I’ll check your head bumps. A-hah! Your Inflated Prose, Trivial Detail, and Superfluous Description bumps are too high. I’ll lower them for $300 cash.”

Harry paid.

“Brace yourself. This is going to hurt. Nurse, hand me that sledgehammer.”

Michael A. Kechula’s flash fiction and microfiction has been published in 132 magazines and 42 anthologies. His four books of flash fiction are available from BooksForABuck.com.