Flash Fictions

Jump on the Band Wagon

I‘m a dork. I think I was born that way. I’ve heard it was a twist in the birth

canal, and the ice tongs that caused it. All my clothes have a slightly odd tint

and smell to them, except for one pair of socks I have, which are, frankly,

pretty darn nice. A doctor once told me, I asked her to repeat it, but of course

she wouldn’t, that there was medication I could take for being a dork. She said

that along with the pills, I’d need two forks of different lengths and genders,

and a box of thumbtacks. She said that contrary to popular misconceptions, the

first and third laws of thermodynamics, and a subscription to Fun with Guns and

Weedeaters magazine, pain, boredom and success are great friends. Well,

sometimes pain and boredom fight, but that’s not important now is it.


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