Flash Fiction (a Hundred Words or Fewer) #32: r/DiarrheaCupcakes

Bored and not feeling like masturbating, I started a Reddit thread called r/DiarrheaCupcakes and monitored its progress.  Within seventy-one seconds, the first response: IMMIGRANTS SUCK!!!!!  After that, twenty-one responses in five minutes, going into explicit detail why immigrants (especially those from shithole countries) suck.  A few Pepe memes appeared, too.  Then, five seconds later, response #23: “You have a recipe for those cupcakes?  Do you add lots of peanuts and corn?”

I deleted the thread there; anything related to that number has cultural cachet, except for the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23, which sucks almost as much as racism.

Copyright © 2018 by David V, Matthews (who has just realized that 32 is 23 backwards–trippy!)

April 10, 2018

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Author: David V. Matthews

David V. Matthews is the author of the short-story collections MELTDOWN IN THE CEREAL AISLE (2015), TURHAN BEY FAN CLUB (2022), and THE MAKING OF INDECENT BETRAYAL: TWO VERSIONS (2024). He lives in Pittsburgh.

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