Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

Yes, my brother and sister bloggers and writers.  My father was a wife beater.  It was a very painful time in my life.  I was just a kid.  He stopped beating my mother when I was around fifteen, but kids don’t forget.  My father’s dead now.  Mom, bless her soul, is still living.

Being the oldest son, I always felt guilty about not protecting my mother.  But knowing my father, if I had ever raised a hand against him he probably would have killed me.  He was a professional boxer before he got married and worked in the steel mills in Pittsburgh while I was growing up. 

You want to know where ideas for flash fiction stories come from?  They come from life.  The following 115-word story is based upon my life…

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Basic Training

My father was a wife beater. So in 1964 at the age of seventeen I enlisted in the army to get away from home…

“Hey, Carter!” Murphy called across the barracks. Everyone was working on his gear. I sat on my foot locker spit shinning my boots.

“Yeah!” I called back.

“You ever eat a woman?”

Eat a woman? I really didn’t know what that meant. Besides, I got flustered around girls. All the older men in the barracks were listening.

“Sure,” I called back.

“Oh, yeah,” he called. “Well, tell me. How did it taste?”

“Salty,” I called.

Several of the older guys laughed appreciatively. Murphy did not harass me for the rest of the day.

The End

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