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BENDING SPOONS; A LEAP OF FAITH

Four Micros

by Special Guest Flash Fiction Writer Suzanne Nielson

COMPLIMENTARY GUIDES

Marie DDS, after a long drought, felt hopeful

about the new America noting that Hilary serving

as Secretary of State would not only reign on the

Republicans parade, but threaten severe wind damage,

along with Al Franken being appointed Ambassador to Israel

indefinitely.

LIKE A MAGNET

Moretta Meineke’s last supper consisted of

six pudding choices. Meineke managed to make

a mess of things by using her spoon as a weapon,

flinging pudding off its indentation at the cardinal family

eating in a mannerly way just outside her kitchen window.

Later that evening Meineke was sequestered to solitary

confinement where she used that same spoon to take her life.

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PLUCKING THORNS

Reverend Timothy Baaken returned to the watering hole

to collect sturgeon whiskers before the ice set in.

At the end of the day he had only samples of 22 of the 23

species, but he felt blessed in spite of this for the pontifical

purple sturgeon made his last appearance right before

Baaken went under to swim with the school around the bend.

WILLFUL BLINDNESS

I can see just fine, Marianna told her husband

through squinted eyes while watching Judge Judy

spank the spunk out of a manicurist with a tattoo of

Bullwinkle on her right wrist. Marianna rubbed

her wrist before checking its size by

gripping her thumb over the nail of her third finger.

I’ve lost weight and you haven’t even noticed,

she said to her husband who was now squinting

at the television screen.

Yeah, yeah, so you have,

he answered her before leaving the room.

Willful blindness can’t be good, said the judge.

GREY SPARROW JOURNAL Spring 2010