Last month, I shared a poem titled “Cigar”. If you haven’t had your cigar this morning, try it in this flavor.
“Cigar” is a little dark, features some unique word play, and is edgy. It goes great with vanilla pudding.
This month, I’m turning the bend and delivering something quite different. Let’s get whimsical. “Memorandum of the Ministry of Silly Putty” is a flash fiction piece that won the Innovative Flash Fiction Award from Flameflower in September 2013. I’d link to it, but it has since been removed from the Web.
No worries. I don’t cry over spilled … polymers.
Without further ado, here’s my flash fiction piece titled “Memorandum of the Ministry of Silly Putty”. I hope you like it (or at least tolerate it).
Memorandum of the Ministry of Silly Putty
I am the Minister of Silly Putty.
I hereby declare that heretofore, forthwith and to wit, all future indications of brilliance, genius, and/or essential intelligence emitted by creatures great and small do not infringe upon the rights of those whose sludge is filled with remarkable intuition beyond all recognition. If any such persons, or beings representing such persons, or their assigns, become agitated for reasons extolling the virtues of non-existent databases, then it is permissible for those who would do otherwise to do otherwise.
If anyone reading these letters feels the need or the urge to splurge, recommend, abscond, blast into outer space, clothe or unclothe, retard, discard, or break into haphazard happenstance, then you must report immediately to the Bin of Divergent Scoundrels and fill out a Blaaah! Ticket. Failure to do so will result in your denial being requested and flushed down the proverbial toilet.
We are in growth mode, exercising every indication to evangelize the particulars, and any effort to condescend to the contradictions mentioned in the previous paragraph shall not forego the concupiscence of yesteryear.
I repeat, I am the Minister of Silly Putty. Carry on with your goings on as usual and forget this memo at once.
Allen Taylor is the author of the forthcoming novel Strangers & Aliens: 60 Days for Abel, the first story in The Merkabah Chronicles. He is also the editor and publisher of the Biblical Legends Anthology Series. The first book in the series, Garden of Eden Anthology, is available on Substack (in text and audio) and audiobook. The entire series is published in print and e-book at Amazon and other places where books are sold.
Post first published at Substack. Image from Pexels.
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