99 Beers
by Mat Twassel
Copyright© 2021 by Mat Twassel
Flash Story: Early one morning walking through the city on his way to work, he spots a pretty woman. He starts humming the song. Mistake.
Tags: Fiction Illustrated
Morning in the city, hurrying towards work on Michigan, the sun just edging over the lake—I saw her. She was tall with wide shoulders and thin limbs. And had a gawky gracefulness to her movements, like a fashion model slightly out of practice. “Pretty woman,” I hummed to myself.
A scruffy panhandler snagged me with his cup. “That’ll be twenty-five cents,” he said. He was blind and not quite toothless.
“Huh?” I said.
“Twenty-five cents,” he repeated. “For the song. Royalties.” He shook his cup.
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