Family values

Status: finished, edited, available for publication by a good journal.

A flash fiction short story.

My short story “Family Values” is a macabre microfiction tale about the disfunctional relationship between a father and his adult son.

When the father disrespects the son, the younger responds with violence that disproves both the father’s insult and the merit of the values that the father had passed on to him.

The son explains all this to a passing motorist he flags down.

That’s it. As I said, it’s a micro-fiction story, all of 100 words. I was inspired when I thought of a single sentence that I thought said a whole story. I literally had to flesh that out in order to reach the minimum word count that flash fiction journals require.

Consequently, I can’t even provide much of an excerpt. But here goes:

They can do whatever. I’m good now. Finally tough enough for my old man. Guess that’s all he wanted. Bastard just never let up.