[Write the Story] The Story Begins at a Funeral

Prompt: The Story Begins at a Funeral

Words: poker, paramount, earlobe, marrow, epic, upgrade, offshoot, chihuahua, episode, icon

Story

You never know who’s going to show up to a funeral. Though the lady wearing poker chips from her ear lobes with a chihuahua in her purse was up there. I followed her – from distance of course – because it’s rude to intrude on grief.

“It’s paramount we settle the upgrades as soon as possible,” she said to another woman with a truly epic hairdo soaring a good foot above her head.

Then another conversation caught my attention. If only the bone marrow transplant had taken. Then maybe we’d still have this icon with us.”

I went from conversation to conversation until the service started – some generic offshoot of a religious service. Once everyone was gone, I went back downstairs where the others waited.

“You should’ve come with me,” I said. “It was a most interesting episode.”

“It’s not television! It’s someone’s end of life.”

I rolled my eyes. “Oh, please, same thing. End of life is an important episode! This one had a dog!”

“A dog? I miss dogs.”

“Not this one. It peed on the casket. No one noticed but me.”

“How long are we going to be like this? Watching people’s funeral’s but never moving on ourselves?”

I shrugged. How much time do we have?”

“Forever. We’re dead, too.”

Word Count: 211

Written: 10/5/2019

Tags: fiction, flash fiction, Horror, Piccadilly, spooky, Write the Story