Give Me A Fish! And Other Stories That Are Perfect For Even The Shortest Toilet Or Public Transit Trips

By Sharon Boddy

In our busy 21st Century lives, burdened as they are with electronica and specialty coffees, there seems to be less and less time to sit down and read. Where does one find the time to not merely scan a story or dutifully bookmark it in our device of choice for a later reading that we never actually get to, but actually finish a tale, or two, from beginning to end without interruption?

Give me a fish! and other stories that are perfect for even the shortest toilet or public transit trips addresses this need in the reading market, utilizing those seconds that people never even realize they have. All of the stories are designed to be read during what would otherwise be time wasted, such as: waiting for a bus, peeing (or in line for the loo at a busy event), while on hold, during television commercials, waiting for a kettle to boil, or one of many other time-stealing activities.

Most of the micro-fictions are a mere paragraph long. The short and non-fiction stories range in reading time but most are well under eight minutes, ideal for when you're in line at the grocery store on a Saturday morning and have exhausted all the juiciest tabloid headlines.

If you fill your unwanted seconds with any reading material this year, make it Give me a fish! Even if you hate it, how much time did you actually waste?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharon Boddy
• Release date: Feb 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9780994888013

Sharon Boddy

Freelance writing, editing and the research that comes with that pays the bills and, luckily for me, is often pretty darned interesting. I write mostly about environmental issues. Sewage sludge and its beneficial uses may not sound like your cup of, ahem, tea, but it's all in the way you look at things.Fiction has always been part of my life. My mum read stories to me every night until I was old enough to read for myself, tucked under the covers with the flashlight. The first thing I can remember writing is a traditional Roses are red poem for my mother when I was about four years old. We had an old manual typewriter and I banged it out on a thin piece of paper. She kept that scrap for years.Turn-ons: energy efficiency, a great smile, discoveryTurn-offs: working in fake teams, cruelty to spiders, lima beans

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Give me a fish!

and other stories that are perfect for

even the shortest toilet or public transit trips

By Sharon Boddy

Published at Smashwords

Smashwords Edition License Notes

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This ebook includes works of fiction and non-fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents in the fictional works are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published by Boddy Language

Copyright ©2016 Sharon Boddy

ISBN: 978-0-9948880-1-3

Why you should read Give me a fish!

In our busy 21st Century lives, burdened as they are with electronica and specialty coffees, there seems to be less and less time to sit down and read. Where does one find the time to not merely scan a story or dutifully bookmark it in our device of choice for a later reading that we never actually get to, but actually finish a tale, or two, from beginning to end without interruption?

Give me a fish! and other stories that are perfect for even the shortest toilet or public transit trips addresses this need in the reading market, utilizing those seconds that people never even realize they have.

All of the stories are designed to be read during what would otherwise be time wasted, such as:

waiting for a bus,

peeing (or in line for the loo at a busy event),

while on hold,

during television commercials,

waiting for a kettle to boil,

or one of many other time-stealing activities.

Most of the micro-fictions are a mere paragraph long. The short and non-fiction stories range in reading time but most are well under eight minutes, ideal for when you're in line at the grocery store on a Saturday morning and have exhausted all the juiciest tabloid headlines.

If you fill your unwanted seconds with any reading material this year, make it Give me a fish! Even if you hate it, how much time did you actually waste?

Cheers,

Sharon

Short and Micro-fiction

New in the brunch world

Poached eggs

Wreck Beach

The snot conundrum

Birding

It was November after all

The teapot

Make them cry

Skanks

The losers dance

Boobies

Non-fiction

Snow good deed goes unpunished

Nigel's sex face

Toilet paper

Drinking stories

F#&k off baby

It's Christmas

Give me a fish!

Extra Stuff

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Special Bonus!

New in the brunch world

There oughta be a North American version of dim sum where the waitresses all wear pink polyester uniforms and call you honey as they roll their carts full of waffles, flapjacks and sausages through the throngs of late Sunday morning bingo players.

Poached eggs

Every Saturday morning, Nigel and Madge walked the five-minute walk from their house to The Cup & Saucer for breakfast. Nigel always took his eggs poached with rye toast, baked beans, and a small glass of tomato juice onto which he sprinkled black pepper and stirred with his fork. He took his coffee black with one sugar. Madge drank tea and moved around the menu. Waffles one week. An omelette the next. A fruit plate here, a pancake there. She teased Nigel, calling him a breakfast snob and telling him to be more adventurous and try new things. All he would ever say to that was, I like the way they poach the eggs here.

Nigel and Madge had been married for twenty-two years. They'd started dating in high school when Nigel had romanced Madge with candy bars, card games, and cologne.

Nigel and Madge spent most afternoons after school at Nigel's house playing gin rummy and eating Twix candy bars. Nigel's mother bought them by the box. Madge would bite off a piece, separate the cookie from the caramel and chocolate with her tongue, slide the biscuit to one side of her mouth, chew and swallow it, then suck the rest for up to several minutes. She could make a single Twix cookie last an hour.

One Friday night in November, Nigel invited Madge to dinner, along with his friend, Eddie and Eddie's girlfriend, Marina. Nigel's mother and younger brother, Michael had eaten earlier. Michael had then