OneWord, Wallpaper
OneWord is an experiment in short, short fiction. Nanofiction. The site gives yo ua word, and you've 60 seconds to write. Tough word this click. It's wallpaper.
Since her fathered traveled (and her mother had passed), they’d for months been setting up parties at her house. She’d melt into the background, watching other teens get shit-faced, have sex, get sick. She’d had enough. Next party, she’d convinced many of them, at $20 a head, that there was LSD hidden in the wallpaper pattern of the dining room. Shrieks rang out as teens licked the walls clean, talking about seeing stars, shapes.
She tipped back a beer and marveled at the pure power of suggestion.
Since her fathered traveled (and her mother had passed), they’d for months been setting up parties at her house. She’d melt into the background, watching other teens get shit-faced, have sex, get sick. She’d had enough. Next party, she’d convinced many of them, at $20 a head, that there was LSD hidden in the wallpaper pattern of the dining room. Shrieks rang out as teens licked the walls clean, talking about seeing stars, shapes.
She tipped back a beer and marveled at the pure power of suggestion.
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