Showing posts with label short stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short stories. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Novel Ideas of the Modern Youth



“This was last night?”
“No,” says Cal, “two nights ago.”
“She was cute?” asks Sean.
“She was pretty cute,” Cal says, reaching across a group of gym-rat, hard body, greek row blondes with their domestic brewed, board short boyfriends to grab a waterbottle out of the cooler beside the counter, “like a kind of mousy cute.”
“In a bad way?” Sean asks from behind him in line.
“No,” Cal pulls his wallet from his back pants pocket, “still cute.”
The group of post-pledged, Kappa PHI-whatevers laugh loudly to themselves in the background from their flipflops, jean skirts, fitted tees, china white teeth and burnt-mud bronzed faces.