Flash Fiction

“This officially has to be the worst day of my life.

The series of unfortunate events started this way.

I had these horrific nightmares all night long, so I woke up drenched in sweat.

When I went for a bath there was no water supply to home. Weird right?

I even called the maintenance guy but he said he’ll have to investigate on it and that would’ve taken time.

Time, that I didn’t have.

So I put on perfume in crazy quantity and got ready.

That’s when things went really bad. And I mean really really bad.

I never lighted the fireplace. I can swear on it. But there it was burning in front of me.

And as I stood their wondering who lighted it, I saw the flames go berserk and they leaped out uncontrollably.

The fire caught hold of the curtains. Yes, my house was on fire.

Lucky for me. I do take care of necessary safety measures, so I had a fire extinguisher handy.

I put off the fire before it could do more damage and left the house with a burnt wall and scorched couch.

Then I went for my car and the junk wouldn’t start. Go figure the odds.

I cursed my luck and called a cab and here I am now. I’m right outside my company.

I called you up as soon as I could, honey. Trust me.”

“You honestly expect me to believe that. That, all this happened to you in one day… one morning to be precise?

You know what? Its enough. Am tired of your lies now. I wont be taken for a dumb person you think I am. Its over.”

She hung up on him. He looked up at the skies and said, “Great…Just great! You have any more trick up your sleeves? Bring it on!”

And that’s when heavy rains started pouring over him.

Meanwhile… far far away…. up and above… In Olympus:

“I can’t believe I just did that. I broke the poor mortal’s heart”, Aphrodite grinned.

“As for the rains. He can’t blame us. He asked for it”, Poseidon said controlling his laugh.

“The fire from the hearth, trick was cool too right?” Hestia said hesitantly in company of the mightier Gods.

“As were my nightmares” Morpheus said.

“Don’t forget the car” Hephaestus smirked.

That’s when Athena barged in. “Come on. Leave the insignificant mortal alone. I can’t believe even you joined them mighty Poseidon. Don’t you all have anything important to do.”

“Sure we do Lady Athena. But its not like we have a deadline to meet or anything” Apollo remarked, and they all burst into laughter.

“Come on Zeus. You don’t wanna get rusty, do you?” Poseidon urged his brother.

Zeus frowned and a thunder shook the Olympus, then subsided. He looked down and just frisked his finger.

A lightening stroked meters away from the poor mortal and he ran inside his office.