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Necroautobiographical microfiction. Microfiction stories in which the main character dies mysteriously.
What Lola wants, Lola sometimes gets
When Pixel’s friend Bre was burglarized, his office-mate Lola helped him organize raising money from Bre’s friends. They spent much of the week together, which was the longest amount of time they’d ever been around each other. Pixel thought Lola was attractive and fun, but she was married, so he wrote her off in his…
waste book, want book
Pixel liked books. Sometimes he would pick up a book from his library, open it to a random page, and read. Okay, he never actually did that, but he thought of himself as the kind of guy that would. Which was what he thought when he saw his friend Bre had a lot of books…
Trauma keeps giving… not gifts, exactly
September 2005 Ange drove the courtesy bus around campus. Pixel had a crush on her and sometimes rode around with her. They would talk about her life, his home town, and he would teach her Spanish. Ange had emotional problems. Pixel realized this. And she would tell Pixel all about her issues. Often. One day,…
… and slipped on a banana peel.
Pixel traveled through time. Specifically, he traveled to 1954. Curious as to what this meant, Pixel decided to try to kill his grandfather. His grandfather was a 23 year old man then: married, but not yet a father. Pixel went to a gun store and purchased a high-powered rifle. He purchased a crate of bullets…
#8: Please use it in a sentence
March 1998 There was a spelling bee at Young Pixel’s school and Young Pixel decided that he wanted to participate. Unfortunately, too many students were participating, so they decided to split the total in two. Pixel’s group would compete first. The best five would then go up against the best five of the second group….
#7: Yes, We Can Change the Channel
February 2008 Pixel decided to catch the results of the latest presidential primary before heading home. He trudged to the local university’s student union. He entered the building and noticed that the flat-screen television was turned on but tuned to some sort of important basketball game. Around the TV was a crowd of large men…
#6: The birds and bees also fuck
Young Pixel’s mom wanted to educate him in her Catholic faith. “Young Pixel,” she said, anachronistically, “I want to educate you in my Catholic faith.” “Okay, mommy,” Young Pixel responded, “I have a question!” “Anything,” she responded. “What does ‘virgin’ mean?” And so Young Pixel’s mom decided to send him to the local Catholic church…
#11: He’ll be identified by his works
Scene: Mayra and friend Brian are in a car, driving to the lyric opera (or some other equally mind-expanding snoozefest like a museum or an abortion clinic) Mayra is talking about how graduate school is going, Brian is listening intently. Mayra looks down and sees a miniature journal. It seems odd to her because Brian…
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Ironically, he didn't see it coming.