Tag Archives: friend

LARISSA THOMSON: Let’s Pretend

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She was always immaculately put together—linen suits, manicured nails, hair colour every six weeks—but a heart attack has you in her apartment discovering her unwashed undergarments and a cache of diet pills in a bathroom cabinet.

You can’t just shut that cabinet and walk away now, my friend.

Larissa Thomson is from British Columbia, Canada. She loves to write flash fiction and short stories, but this is her first foray into micro fiction. She is raising two humans and hopefully teaching them the importance of looking beyond the superficial.

LEA JOY P FRIAS: Memories and Flowers

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The widower, Mr. Rochester, didn’t pick up his rose bouquet today. He says roses remind him of his beautiful wife.

His neighbor, Mr. John, walked in the next day. He asked, “Do you have Yellow Pansy?”

I answered, “No. Why?”

“Pansy would remind me of my good friend, Mr. Rochester.”

Lea is a ghost writer who hides in another person’s shadow. She came out today to write stories again.

DAVID DEREY: Whipped

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“Whipped!” we used to shout, mocking him, all those times he couldn’t join on bar nights.

When he could, she’d always call him home early.

Those phone calls cracked us up. We made women’s voices, and passionately screamed his name while he shushed us.

“Hanged,” police told us one day.

David Derey wrote this story.

JASON HUYNH: Open Arms, Closed Heart

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She leaned on me and cried, speech broken like her heart. I was her rock, but she needed softness, too.

Sympathy was all I could offer. Struggles for empathy rendered me near indifferent.

I embraced her, yet my heart felt nothing, still fearing heartbreak. Just a shoulder to cry on.

Jason realizes the faults in his stories after he submits them. His discouragement with his work upon further reflection caused him to pursue a career in computer science, with writing on the side.

I’m Glad You’re the Special One

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“You have an ability that nobody else has. Don’t you think that’s at least a little bit awesome?”

“No, not really.”

“But your ability is so cool!”

“Really? Do you actually wish you could do what I can do?”

“…No. I guess not. But I’m glad you can do it!”

This is how I think most people would react to the special abilities people have in my web serial, Special People. It’s kind of like having a friend with an “awesome” moustache: it’s cool that they have it, but I’d never grow one like that myself.

This story was based on the prompt “nobody has” at TypeTrigger.

Hypotheticals

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“What do you think would happen if a yodeler got turned into a zombie? Would it cry for our brains with yodels?”

“…No.”

“Ok, stupid question, fair enough. Oh man, you know what would be really freaky, though? Zombified birds. Because they could fly.”

Sometimes I really hate my friends.

@DashP responded to a request for two nouns and a verb with the words “zombie”, “yodels”, and “fly”.

Couldn’t Really Say Why

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Martin was my worst friend. You know how some people say they have a “best” friend? Martin was the opposite of that. Like, if “BFF” means “Best Friends Forever”, then I’d call Martin my “WFFA”: Worst Friend For Always. That’s how much I didn’t like him.

Couldn’t really say why.