Flash Fiction 10.4.2016 Word Count: 298 |
My friend Al has always been a get-rich-quick kind of guy. He would do almost anything to make a buck, stock market, selling vacuum cleaners, gambling, he would even ask people to dare him to do crazy things for money. Things like, go a month without a shower, eat worms, or do an impossible stunt. These things always seemed to get him into trouble quicker than they got him rich. One month back in 2005, Al has managed to get in more trouble than usual and had made an interesting new friend. This was normal for Al but this was not a normal. Al had accepted a dare for the price of a hundred bucks, Al had to kiss three random strangers. First, he chose a tall blonde woman with beautiful lips. Her reaction, as expected, was a slap across the face and pepperspray. Apparently, he wasn't the first stranger to kiss her, she was prepared. The second... victim... was a librarian woman. She had big thick glasses and wore a faded plaid skirt and a matching oversided sweater. When he kissed her, she fainted. He kindly picked her up off the ground and placed her gently back in her chair and left. Finally, Al thought he had found a winner. He saw a beautiful woman in the distance and walked over to her. He began to pucker his lips as he came closer, only to realize the woman wasn't a woman but a man in woman's clothing. Sadly for Al, it was to late. The man had seen him and wanted that kiss. Al spent the rest of the month in hiding until the trouble has passed, then he moved to the Bahamas where he spends his days hassling tourist and still trying to get rich quick. |