Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

There’s a barber shop across the street from my apartment building.  I’ve been shaving my head for years in the shower; but sometimes I get lazy and my hair grows too long for me to shave it.  When this happens, I get a hair cut.

So, one morning several weeks ago I decided to get a haircut.  It was early in the morning, but the sign in the window said the shop was open.  I knocked on the door.  I heard someone unlock the door and then the door opened.

In front of me stood a tall, thin old man (older than me).  His front teeth were missing, he had short, receding white hair, snot ran from his nose and he sucked on a chicken bone.  I couldn’t wait to get my haircut.

His name was Mayfield.  He was a retired mail man.  He was 75 years old.  We had a great conversation and I got a good haircut (a bald head).

I’m still trying to find a short story to put Mayfield in.

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Hello, my brother and sister bloggers, readers, writers and my Flash Fiction Fanatics.  It’s Friday morning and the Old Soldier has money in his pockets.  You know what that means: karaoke tonight at Del’s Bar and Italian Restaurant in Bloomfield (Little Italy) in Pittsburgh.  I’ve been doing my breathing and stretching exercises all week.

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The Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette got 244 hits yesterday and it has over 1,400 hits so far this month.  You can’t beat that with a stick!

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