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Grocery List

November 28, 2024 10 Comments

By Madeline Monroe

I need quite a few things from the grocery store: eggs (to throw at Lisa Coleman’s house); toilet paper (also to throw at Lisa Coleman’s house); sugar (to pour in my ex-boyfriend’s gas tank); a pocketknife (to slit his tires); milk (to pour all over those velvety back seats where he fucked Lisa Coleman in the driveway at my Halloween party); tissues (for me); chocolate ice cream (for me); a DVD rental (so I have something to do afterwards);and a lighter (to burn all the pictures and letters and notes my ex-boyfriend ever gave me). Oh, and some granola bars.

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  1. Roy Dorman says

    November 28, 2024 at 8:56 am

    I think that should cover it. Great little story, Madeline.

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  2. James Miller says

    November 28, 2024 at 11:33 am

    Well that tells a story. Lol.

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  3. Jim Pownall says

    November 28, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    Love it!

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  4. Tracie Adams says

    December 4, 2024 at 8:05 am

    Ok, the granola bars? What a perfect ending to a rant like that!

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  5. Kelly Louisa Balliu says

    December 4, 2024 at 8:43 am

    A short story within a piece of flash. Nice one 🙂

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  6. Menke HB says

    December 4, 2024 at 10:26 am

    Great concept! I especially love the ending. It is a nice, nonchalant reminder that this really is a grocery list & that life moves on, despite what has happened or the planned revenge.

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  7. Toni Brayer says

    December 4, 2024 at 11:53 am

    Everyone can relate. Well done! Good use of 100 words.

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  8. Michael W King says

    December 4, 2024 at 2:38 pm

    That was very good!!! Very clever! Based on this story, I’d read anything you wrote.

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  9. Ed Kratz says

    December 4, 2024 at 4:06 pm

    NIcely done. Loved the granola bars. A nice injection of the narrator’s going on, I think.

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  10. Marie says

    December 5, 2024 at 5:22 pm

    So well done, I really enjoyed it!

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