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Monday, April 7, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #TheStarvingGames

“Winter is coming.”
Jack Frost* #quote

        Today I went to the doctor's office. Got moved to a new doctor because of my health plan to a doctor down very close to my house. I like the doctor so far(the problem with being forced to switch doctors is that you can get stuck with someone you don't like). If I keep liking him it'll be good. It's not a new epilepsy doctor, just the normal primary care physician, thankfully I'm going to the same neurological clinic. It'd be really crazy if I had to switch that. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Starving Games

      The children were left alone in the house to fend for themselves, the oldest sister at the age of 16 left in charge to babysit. Their tribe numbered five in total, three brothers and two sisters. 

Emily Age 10
Barry Age 11
Adam Age 13
John Age 14
Jessica Age 16

      These were the children trapped in the Starving Games. The Starving Games being that all of them desired dinner...but all were too lazy to make it. The parent's understood their children possessed the ability but not the drive. The children all sat around the TV whining and complain.
      “You do it.”
      “No you.”
       The eldest as babysitter would tell the others to do it as boss but they would counter that as the babysitter she should do it. The competition over who should make dinner continued for what seemed to be hours.
        Though the total time of the Starving Games was thirty minutes. But whining, complaining and arguing tends to drag out the perception of time.
        They decided to order pizza. This turned out to be one of the few times that the siblings cooperated on a single task, evenly splitting the cost of the pizza based on how many slices the person ate. They laughed and talked about how they argued about who should make dinner when this was the smarter solution(in the minds of these kids pizza could be a daily diet). They would go back to arguing the next day, but this tale does show that laziness can be one of the greatest ways to bring people together.

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