Cup—Six Sentence Story

Samuel had no idea why he accepted the invitation to his friend’s wedding. He had long ago psyched out his former classmates whom he expected to be there as terminally weird. However, after the ceremony and dinner as the dancing began he saw something bubble over in their eyes he hadn’t noticed before. They suddenly weren’t the certifiable psychos he remembered them to be, but rather huggable people.

In the morning Samuel’s memories of the party faded into his intellectual reconstructions of nonreality. But even after he drank a full cup of strong coffee his newfound love for all of them refused to capitulate to the nuttiness of his own mind.

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Denise offers the prompt word ” cup” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

29 thoughts on “Cup—Six Sentence Story”

    1. Ah! The (terrible and/or toxic) persistence of seeing the world as we have always done. Surely the most subtle of impediments to developing as people is to let go of immaturity.

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