In a paroxysm of petulance, Nora threw her copy of Mansfield Park into the library’s fireplace. She could no longer tolerate the avalanche of words. Why did people in those days speak and write in such convoluted ways? By the time they got to the point and the sentence came to an end, she had forgotten what they were talking about. No wonder the average life expectancy then was so short! They died of boredom.
Sudden Flash is an online magazine of extremely short fiction.