Friday, July 09, 2010

Flash Fiction Inspired by Real Life

DOS and DONTS
by Matt Larsen

Taking CTRL of years of hoarding, DEL had asked his girlfriend Susan if he could RUN old manuals down to her basement cache. It should have been BASIC, but things got complicated after he asked to give their relationship a BREAK.

"Fine," she said, "Then I CMD you to pick them up or else I'll put them out for garbage collection."

"SU, come on! I need HELP. I thought you were a capacitor," he said, "Not a resistor."

"GOTO hell," she said.

But all that came back was an ECHO. He'd already ended the CALL.