h2>Dating : First Breath! Flash Fiction
Here is the first draft Flash Fiction story for First Breath!, Chapter One of my book Dudebro! The Life and Death of a Modern Gentleman.
NOTE: being flash fiction, it is only about 340 words or so. It describes a toddler sitting in a field of grass in his front yard:
Dandelion taste yellow.
Daisy taste white
and yellow.
Ants go marching, worms are squiggling
in the hot sun (HOT, don’t TOUCH)
They get squishy and wrinkly and I roll them in half.
It’s scary to see and my soul does not laugh, but it feels funny and new.
Sitting in the grass. The blades are cold on my chubby legs.
The blades itch me, so I yank and pull and break the grass.
I stand then sit, stand again and take steps
but my binky drops, then I with it.
Crawling to my binky I feel it brewing and then!
There’s poop in my diaper, I know because it’s warm and mushy and
stinky. But, if I tell Mommy then no more outside.
Only the inside with the carpet and the fuzzies, the sun through the glass making
all the stuff orange and I can’t eat the flowers and squish the worms.
I sit and squirm and squish around, crawl to the shade of the maple’s shadow
and pick up the dirt and rocks.
It feels good rubbing my feet with socks on.
Feel the cool breeze brush me by and
giggle at the kiss of a butterfly
knowing it’s all together, but not knowing why
the sun makes the moon shine and every little thing lines
up in the sky where I stare, get dizzy.
My matter and my mass make sense here, connected to the noises
BEEPING and BUZZING and HUMMING and SINGING.
This symphony of Life commands entanglement.
My head is filled and freed, my breath is cool like
minty gum I cannot eat and swallow, and it rises and falls
like Time does to all and
being so small and purpose-less, what will the lesson Be?
Will I see in my mind
what enters my eye,
appreciate the beauty of every tree or
consider the value of each leaf?
Will I cry in the dark when the monsters appear?
Will I fight and bleed and live and learn?
What will they make me?
Nature and Society?
