Dreaming of Kafka

Dreaming of Kafka

15 Minute Short Story

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Ricardo Pierre-Louis
Jan 16, 2025
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While at work a coworker came up to me and proposed that we write together. We ended up finding some random prompt online that said something along the lines of

Write a story about someone discovering something that had been lost for awhile

So I wrote something brief and I'm suprisingly happy with how it turned out. 500ish words or one page. Hope you enjoy 😄

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15 Minute Short Story

My grandfather is an ole bat, a wrecking ball, a misanthrope, and a downright pain in the ass, but at the end of the day he’s still my grandfather.

I told my dad we should just put him in a home, let the nurses shoot horse tranquilizers up his veins till his temper became manageable. My dad didn’t talk to me the rest of the day after that conversation. So now, I’m stuck with the curmudgeon. Part of my dues for living at home requires that I take care of him when no one else can, and because of the seasonal nature of an accountant’s job, my dad’s always gone, and I’ve become th…

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