Saturday Story 2023 – Week 6 (Eliza’s Birthday)
A new story is now available on my Patreon. Something different today, meant to be a one-off. It was constructed out of two ideas I had for flash fiction pieces that I ended up merging into a single concept. Synopsis below:
Eliza wakes up on the day after her birthday to find her house in disarray. What happened at the surprise party the night before?
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A small excerpt is available below:
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Eliza Winthrop opened her eyes to the Saturday morning sun and screamed. Her bedroom was completely upside down as if a mini-hurricane had passed through it while she slept, but it wasn’t the only division of the house in disarray. All the other ones had suffered the same cruel fate and cleaning everything up was sure to be a nightmare.
“What the fuck? Did we get robbed during the night?” she thought, stretching her arms and legs as she rose from her warm bed.
No, nothing as serious as that. The mess she was looking at was the aftermath of her twenty-fifth birthday party, a surprise event she had unceremoniously tried to avoid, only to be overruled by her roommate and best friend Trish. What should have been a quiet and relatively intimate event with only a couple of friends and close relatives soon became an open invitation to the entire neighborhood with plenty of booze, loud music throughout the night, and plenty of unexpected surprises she was having a hard time remembering. Her head was throbbing. It felt like someone had cracked it open like an uncooked egg, removed the yolk, and then tried to glue it all back together. She rubbed her forehead with her right hand and stumbled into the bathroom where she found a handwritten note glued on the bathroom mirror. It read,
“Hey, girlfriend,
by now you’ve seen the ruckus – sorry about that! – but it was quite the party, wasn’t it?
(…)
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