I'm Going to Be So Famous - Black Hare Press

by Ryan Van Ells

The hand behind the camera signals: more.

I would smile, but I know better. Instead, I let out another sob, dreadful and echoing. I feel Mike twitch away from it. Amateur. If he was going to break up with me, I was going to get another show out of it.

The hands signal again. More.

I bury my face in his neck. Tears flow freely. I clench my fist around his dead father’s fountain pen—a parting gift because I meant so much to him. Gag.

More.

I raise the pen behind his back.

I’m going to be so famous.

Ryan Van Ells

Ryan Van Ells is a queer lawyer and author of dark fiction from Milwaukee, WI. His work has most recently appeared in State of Matter Magazine, Tiny Terrors, and Snakebite Books’ 100 Word Horror. You can find him at: ryanvanellsauthor.wordpress.com.

I’m Going to Be So Famous

The hand behind the camera signals: more.

I would smile, but I know better. Instead, I let out another sob, dreadful and echoing. I feel Mike twitch away from it. Amateur. If he was going to break up with me, I was going to get another show out of it.

The hands signal again. More.

I bury my face in his neck. Tears flow freely. I clench my fist around his dead father’s fountain pen—a parting gift because I meant so much to him. Gag.

More.

I raise the pen behind his back.

I’m going to be so famous.

The hand behind the camera signals: more.

I would smile, but I know better. Instead, I let out another sob, dreadful and echoing. I feel Mike twitch away from it. Amateur. If he was going to break up with me, I was going to get another show out of it.

The hands signal again. More.

I bury my face in his neck. Tears flow freely. I clench my fist around his dead father’s fountain pen—a parting gift because I meant so much to him. Gag.

More.

I raise the pen behind his back.

I’m going to be so famous.

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