Universal Mockery

I think the Universe may be mocking me, and it is using Three Minute Fiction to do it.

Stories for the last round of Three Minute Fiction were supposed to revolve around a U.S. president. In my unfinished story, the president was going to visit a locally famous diner. The owner of the diner, who disliked the president’s policies, did not want the president to come and he only went along with it for his wife’s sake. But he decided to play a joke on the president. He rewrote the entire menu, naming all of the dishes with catchwords from the president’s opposition. When the president finally visited, though, he behaved so decently that the diner owner felt bad. Afterward, he went back to using the old menu, but he named one dish after the president.

The reason I didn’t finish the story is that I couldn’t think of what the dish should be or how it should be described. That was the only thing holding the story up. The description of the dish is the punchline, and the story won’t work without it.

Now, as to why I think the Universe is mocking me, it’s because I have read only two of the Three Minute Fiction stories so far, but both take place in diners! In the first, a waitress is initially nervous to be serving the president, but he’s so indecisive that she stops being nervous and starts thinking that he had better leave a big tip. Hah. But the second story is the real jab from the Universe. A diner worker who hates the president gets to meet him in person and sees that he’s not so bad.

So clearly I’m being mocked for not finishing my story. Diners are all the rage in Three Minute Fiction right now, and I missed out on the trend. So sad.

Anyway, I guess I’ll try finish the story and publish it here. I still haven’t mastered the 600-word story, so it will be good practice, right? Then maybe I’ll be ready for the next round and be able to finish my story on time.

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3 Responses to Universal Mockery

  1. sprite says:

    Diners are awesome. You clearly need to visit said diner to do research for your story and that’s why the punchline has not presented itself to you yet.

  2. sprite says:

    In the event your story is not based on a specific diner, you will obviously have to visit all local diners in order to reach a consensus.

  3. chick says:

    Every local diner? Egad! ๐Ÿ™‚

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