
Add to basket(A flash fiction of 872 words)
Priority Lives
Fantasy - Sci-fi Fantasy
by David G Allen
The end is coming. Act accordingly.
The clock stopped at 11:00am, precisely.
The laptop exploded.
Our fridge freezer malfunctioned, starting a flood in the kitchen.
Radio 4 News interrupted the afternoon play.
‘An unexplained electrical force,’ they said.
‘It’s global warming,’ said Lulu. ‘You watch.’
That was yesterday.
Today’s our fifth anniversary.
I’ve just woken up.
In the bath.
Slumped.
Cold.
The bath water is red.
Lulu is blue.
The slash to her wrists tell the story…
The clock stopped at 11:00am, precisely.
The laptop exploded.
Our fridge freezer malfunctioned, starting a flood in the kitchen.
Radio 4 News interrupted the afternoon play.
‘An unexplained electrical force,’ they said.
‘It’s global warming,’ said Lulu. ‘You watch.’
That was yesterday.
Today’s our fifth anniversary.
I’ve just woken up.
In the bath.
Slumped.
Cold.
The bath water is red.
Lulu is blue.
The slash to her wrists tell the story…