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Time for another story from the archives!
I almost forgot about this one. I usually write some sort of speculative fiction. If I write contemporary, it’s usual a “Vienna” story, a tale set in the fictional Midwest town of Vienna. Today’s story “Incidents on a Sunday Afternoon,” however, stands alone. Here was my write-up from year’s ago:
Life is funny. This story proves it. The vast majority of the events in this story happened to my family one Sunday afternoon. For the sake of the story, I condensed the characters to two, from the original six or seven. Ostrich eggs are awesome.
It really was a strange afternoon all those years ago, and this is one of the first times, I think, where I wrote in a lighthearted everyday life sort of way, a tact I occasionally use for my flash fictions. (See “The Best Thing In the Whole World,” for instance.)
Anyway, if you want pregnant pugs, traveling relatives, and failed attempts at drilling a hole in an ostrich egg all wrapped into one story, have you come to the right place! Download the story here–>incidents-on-a-sunday-afternoon-nick-hayden