Worthing Flash

"Clive, you remember that article I wrote about female priests?" "Darling," Clive sighed, "I could hardly forget it now could I?" "Well since I wrote it, I have had a troll." "A Nordic monster who lives under bridges?" "A monster certainly. This one follows me on social media and has said the most ghastly things. He says that I am obviously a frustrated spinster who needs a good seeing-to." "And then he threatened my life." "Ah. Have you consulted the police." "They traced the IP address." "The what?" "It tells them which computer the messages come from. It's yours, Clive." "The police would like a word." The End Derek McMillan is a writer in Durrington in the UK. His editor is his wife, Angela. He has written for print and online publications in the UK, USA, Australia and Canada. His latest book is the audio...

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The message He picked up his phone and looked at the keys And he called up the message she sent She has sung him a song maybe five seconds long And he knew now what every word meant “ I’ve something to tell you please wait there for me” Was the only part that he could hear He had waited alone until later that day When the songs and the message came clear Now he sat there for minutes reflecting their fate Was it really a year since she’d gone Perhaps it was better that she went away Perhaps now she could finish that song He picked up the phone and looked at the keys He had cherished that message to long So he pushed the key that was written “Delete” Thinking now it was time to move on by Don McBeth

 Sometimes you know the language, but until you experience the procedure, the words don't begin to express what you are about to encounter.   A Catheter is a device you might know about.  You may have even seen a television commercial for self-lubricating catheters with happy, smiling actors.  Remember, they’re being paid to act happy, something you won’t be when you experience the catheter up close and personally. A catheter is a tube that goes up your urethra directly into the bladder to drain it.  While putting it in was awful.  Removing it was even worse.  Most catheters are kept in place by a tiny inflated balloon that expands in your urethra.  The first time I had a catheter, Nurse Sunshine used a different type of catheter, one that used a screw type mechanism to keep it in place.  When nurse Dana came in to remove it.  She tried to deflate the balloon – but there was no balloon.  She decided that the onl...

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Flash Memoir by Michael Field Sitting on a barstool by the fireplace looking out at the snowscape, I am savoring the velvety smoothness of my second O’Ascutney. It is St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and the bartender has spiked my favorite liquor, Bailey’s Irish Cream, with an additional shot of Irish Whiskey. I don’t feel it now but will when I stand up. As I unwind, I think back. My day, then my life, scrolls backwards as if a projector had been left on while the film rewound. My mother is in a nursing home, and I might have to abort this weekend’s outing to be at her bedside. Nursing home aides have a way of knowing when death is near. I didn’t carpool on this afternoon’s drive from Connecticut to Vermont so I could jump in the car should the dreaded call come. I don’t know how to ski but I signed up for Emily’s ‘Weekends To Go’ cross-country skiing trip because other outings with her turned out to be fun. Plus, my coworker, Harry, said he is coming with his girlfriend, Maggie. Al...