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Thalia Toha's avatar

Daniel, this is very clever. I like the personification of Flash, Fiction, and even Fact! Brilliantly done.

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Thank you Thalia! I’m glad you liked it and I appreciate the lovely feedback. To be honest, this is one of my least read posts, so I’m happy to hear that you enjoyed it. Fiction is not normally one of my usual (strongest) pursuits.

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murphy gray's avatar

A very fun read. Love it. If this happened and I were the teacher, though… ugh lol

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

It's worse for my poor students. They've been subjected to this kind of dire teacher/dad joke humour for years.

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Faith Liversedge's avatar

And we’re still nowhere nearer the true definition! Love ‘hot totty’ 😆

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

I was wondering if anyone would notice and/or comment on 'hot totty' - that was bound to confuse a few people, see what happens when Americans (not me, Jason) try to use British slang? 😂

I'm not sure I'll be posting any more flash fiction soon. I'll stick to what I know!

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Faith Liversedge's avatar

Also: not to be confused with ‘hot toddy’

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

And that wasn’t even the worst pun/joke in a story full of them!

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Caz Hart's avatar

The second light hearted story I've read today. Ah, the relief. ,😁

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Anastasiia's avatar

My emotional states over reading this:

🙂😀😆😳

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Stephanie Clemons's avatar

Is this based on a true story? 😅

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Daniel Puzzo's avatar

Let's say 'loosely'- the humour is very much lifelike, teachers love terrible puns.

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