WELCOME TO FLASH FICTION

AUTHOR’S NOTE
STARING something new on my blog: Flash Fiction. Some will be mine and I hope to feature stories from other authors as well. Let me know what you think. If you write flash fiction contact me at lindarondeau@gmail.com. Clean, fun, and entertaining. (Snark)
ANTIQUATED MAN
They call me an antiquated man.
I’m not really all that out of sync with how the world operates. I choose not to operate that way.
I have a cellphone. It’s in my top dresser drawer. The one my daughter insisted on buying for me.
My grandson gave me his old computer. That’s in the garage.
As far as I can see, technology is the guillotine for our once wonderful way of life. I for one choose not to stick my head in the hold. Beulah wouldn’t want me to.
I wish everyone could have known my Beulah like I did.
Beulah never googled a recipe. She stored them all in her heart.We never snapchatted. Instead, we took long strolls in the park and occasionally snuck in a matinee. We took one photograph the day we were wed.
Antiquated I might be, but I never have to find my phone to remember by beautiful Beulah.

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