“After Julian”
Right after Julian left town, people missed him. Time passed, and they began to miss other things. One of his roommates, Adam, couldn’t find his portable CD player. Their other roommate, Jason, couldn’t find his concert T-shirts. The bookstore discovered it no longer had a copy of the Hardcover Oxford Abridged English Dictionary. A co-worker couldn’t find his favorite bong. One of his exes couldn’t find her favorite sweatshirt or U2 CD. As people talked, they began to put it together. The conclusion was unmistakable. And in the NW corner of the country, Julian was safe from reprisals.
About a month after Julian left, everyone still missed their things. But they’d pretty much stopped missing Julian.
[Found this when I was putting together a writing sample. It was part of a larger manuscript, but I wondered if it worked as flash fiction.]
April 20th, 2013 at 7:35 am
Definitely works.
April 20th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Thanks, friend!
April 21st, 2013 at 10:45 am
I like it! Yes.