Memento Mori & Other Short Stories
from My Bloody Valentine: a PUNK NOIR Magazine series
Dear sir or madam,
As The National Make A Friend Day has recently passed, I am writing to inform you that I have once again published two flash fiction pieces on the theme of “My Bloody Valentine”… I would like it very much if you could possibly take the time to read them over as you have read the others. I believe you will find them to your satisfaction and see that they are excellent pieces of work. I am making my way to your abode as I write. The stagecoach has thrown a wheel, hence the tardiness in my approach.
Thanking you in advance for your likes, kind words and retweets.
All the best until I reach you,
Cheers always,
– Stephen J. Golds, editor-in-chief
Memento Mori by Geonn Cannon
I burned our love letters.
Deleted folders off my phone. Everywhere we’d been together, every text. Books worth of conversations, gone with a screen tap. Took our photos off my wall. Disappearing us entirely. Three years.
You still had yours. I couldn’t trust you. It takes more hurt to follow through that much erasure. So I did it for you.
I didn’t know where you kept it. I needed to be sure it was all gone.
So I did it for you. I watched until your house was ashes before I left. To be sure.
I burned our love letters.
Bio
Geonn Cannon is a writer of over 60 novels, including two official Stargate SG-1 tie-ins, and the creator of the webseries Riley Parra.
Direct Block by Jody Wenner
Heart-shaped stickers poured from my locker on Valentine’s Day. They were from Billy. I ignored it.
He had my name painted on his face in red at the school carnival. I pretended not to see it.
Roses outside my door for prom. I stayed home.
At the ten-year class reunion, he sat in the corner watching me all night.
When he tried friending me on social media, I blocked him.
But when I saw his face on my security camera, I knew it was time.
I swung open the door and blocked Billy out of my life for good.
Bio
Jody Wenner is a Midwestern author and editor. She has several independently published mystery and suspense novels as well as two works released by The Wild Rose Press in 2023. Shorter stories and articles can be found in the pages of Punk Noir,Mystery Magazine Weekly, The Keepthings, Thriller101, and The Motley Writer’s Guild. When not writing, reading, or editing, you will find her walking her dog or obsessively knitting.
These stories appear as part of My Bloody Valentine, a PUNK NOIR Magazine series.
PUNK NOIR, the online literary and arts magazine that looks at the world at its most askew, casting a bloodshot eye over the written word, film, music, television and more.
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