Conflicting Definitions

by Steven Lemprière

Love, honour and obey. My marriage vow to you. Just shy of twenty years, our china anniversary, a promise for you is one of fresh pastures. Symbolically, your duplicity shanghaied me, wooing your porcelain skinned PA. My advice to her? She should note my husband’s hidden shallows before taking the plunge.

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Steven Lemprière's flash has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Drabble, Friday Flash Fiction, 50-Word Stories, 50 Give or Tale and Punk Noir Magazine. He undertook a creative writing course while a patient at an Irish psychiatric hospital, and shortly after his discharge, found himself shortlisted for the New Writers Prize at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Originally from London, he now lives between the West Coast of Ireland and South-West France. He's an ex of X.