Flash Fiction Friday: Mind Over Matter
Posted: 2008/10/03 15:37
MIND OVER MATTER
Hansel was sixty-eight when he decided he was tired of being pushed around. He was a victim of the meanest bully ever, The Universe, and at three-sixteen on a Friday afternoon he decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. He walked right out his back door, across the yard, and straight up to a fist-sized rock against a twig that thought itself a pine tree. There he stood: his hands by his side, his house slippers on his feet and his open work shirt showing his paunch in his fading t-shirt.
“I’m through,” he said. “I’m not playing along any more. Just you versus me, buddy.” He glared at the rock. The rock remained unfazed. Read the full story here >>
Age 9 months: Henry James Walker was eight pounds, eight ounces when he was born. Despite no make-up and the hours of labor, the moment his mother first held him she looked as beautiful as she had on her wedding day.
Age 8: He and his sister Margaret had a hamster named Pudding who died unexpectedly after they’d had it for less than a month. Margaret was extremely upset. She asked their pastor if hamsters go to heaven. He replied there was no sadness in heaven, so if she was still sad about Pudding when she got there, then yes, Pudding would be there too.
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