Flash Fiction (a Hundred Words or Fewer) #51: Grandpa Bought a Rubber

Either my Internet skills have deteriorated, or I’ve hallucinated the past.  After minutes of intense Googling, I can’t find proof Steve Martin ever sang a song called “Grandpa Bought a Rubber.”  I could swear I’d heard this song during my childhood—well, not the actual song, but my classmates singing it at school; my parents forbade me from owning Steve Martin albums or any other adult cultural products, searching my bedroom regularly for contraband and beating me if they found any.  However, decades later, my mother died from colon cancer, and my father died from liver failure, so, yay, revenge.

Copyright © 2019 by David V. Matthews

Flash Fiction (a Hundred Words or Fewer) #50: Your Insouciance Reaffirmed Mine

Nursing the flattest lager I’ve ever bought, sitting in a cacophonous bar and grill at a dreary Midwestern airport, my return flight delayed another two hours due to a ferocious snowstorm, some bald-spotted crewcut in the next booth pontificating to someone that the weather undoubtedly proves climate change does not exist despite what the liberally-biased scientific community wants us to believe, I suddenly realize your insouciance reaffirmed mine during our most recent tête-à-tête (yes, I know you consider English speakers who use French terms pretentious—sorry), thus proving we share an adamantine spiritual bond.  Do you agree?  If not, why?

Copyright © 2019 by David V. Matthews

The 1990s: More Than Just The Baby-Sitters Club!

All sketchbook pages:

Convertibles, Headbands, Adjustable Headrests, and Rotating Signs (Los Angeles, March 30, 1968, 9:09 AM), January 23, 1997

D. Matthews Presents Another Menagerie!, January 23, 1997

Salute to Marvin, December 30, 1996/January 2, 1997

He Gets Delirious, Whenever I’m Near…, November 24, 1996/ December 1-2, 1996

Flat Menagerie #1: Grassy Enclosure &c., February 11, 1996/February 20, 1996

Horton Thinks about Some Hot Sex He Had with a Call Girl Named Susan in Atlantic City in 1952, March 7, 1994

Pubic Masterpiece, March 2, 1994