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An Index from the Book of Flash Fiction Pieces I’ll Probably Never Write

The Dozen Flash Fiction Pieces I’ll Probably Never Write


What would Einstein make of Nanci Griffith’s ‘Speed of the sound of loneliness’?
Twenty ways to leave your lover.
The twenty first way to meet your lover.
I wonder if my spaniel thinks it is ‘Raining Dogs and Cats’.
101 ways to make a potato crisp bounce.
What does the rainbow taste of, I wonder?
Science tells everyone, something they never knew - poetry does the opposite.

When I thought I was kissing you, you said you were flossing.
I asked for devotion, but did you disenfranchise me?

That thing I always forget on the shopping list, that’s what led me to you.
Finally, you and I, together, happily ever after.

(111 words)




Previous version:


Why Albert Einstein said it was the speed that is the most startling ….

How I came to rule the world.

Twenty ways to leave your lover.

The twenty first way to meet your lover.

The thing I always forget on the shopping list that led me to you.

Is my spaniel right to tell my cat it is ‘Raining Dogs and Cats’?

101 ways to make a potato crisp bounce.

When I thought I was kissing you said I was flossing.

If I am devoted to you, will you disenfranchise me?

What does the rainbow taste of, I wonder?

If science tells everyone, something they never knew - does poetry do the opposite?

Finally, you and I live happily ever after

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