Family values: a micro story

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

A flash fiction short story.

Short story “Family Values” is a macabre micro-fiction tale about the dysfunctional 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 101 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 stood up to my old man. Yeah. He just wouldn’t let up. It’s what he wanted. The bastard dared me.

“So he ran the damn truck into the ditch. He’s still in there. Lucky I wasn’t killed.