Adam Qos, a graduate student at the University of Noital, was eating lunch in the cafeteria of his dorm when another graduate student sat down across from him with his tray full of Apple Poof Delight.
“Is that all you’re going to eat?” Adam asked with a flat expression as if he had asked that same student the same thing many times in the past which indeed he had.
“But it’s so good, Qos,” the student said.
“You know it says right on the package that you could vanish if you eat it,” Adam pointed out.
“But it’s so very, very good,” the student explained to his own satisfaction which in postmodern ethics is as far as one can go, but that is far enough to fall off a cliff or tempt a mousetrap one time too many.
If this were the first time they had this conversation, Adam would have explained to him that if one wanted to live a long and happy life it is not smart to jump off a cliff, but such universal truths don’t sink in for some until the mousetrap snaps shut.
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Denise offers the prompt word “flat” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 