The Happy Pigeon and The Severed Jugular, And Other Whimsical Tales [Flash Fiction]

This isn't my usual vibe, but I wrote these as stream-of-consciousness a while ago when I was in a foul but fanciful mood and will never use them for anything else, so might as well.

The idea was to be as dramatic, tragic, and macabre as I could be in the shortest amount of time.

So these are all one to three sentences long. I've done them all with the same 'template' and left in the order that I wrote them.

I hope you hate them, in a good way :)

They're meant to be funny, in a dark humour throw-up-your-hands-and-tremble-at-the-fragility-of-life sort of way.

(images are commercially licensed stock images from pexels.org)

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One sunny day a happy little pigeon flew into a glass door, breaking its neck, and died.

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One day a boy wore a pink shirt to school to commemorate the death of his mother by breast cancer. The older boys shoved his head in a toilet and flushed it. When they finally left, he started out of the stall and tripped, hitting his head on the tiles. After 23 years in a coma, he choked on saliva clogging his feeding tube and died.

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One day a woman received a paper cut while wrapping a gift for her younger brother who had severe degenerative disease. While leaving through the front patio to get a band-aid, she walked straight into the closed glass door, and as the glass shattered around her one large piece severed her jugular vein and she died alone in a pool of blood on the carpet.

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One day a little boy with a broken foot limped into the doctor's office where his mother had just been informed that she was pregnant with twins! They celebrated together, and went straight home to tell Dad the news where they found him hanging from electrical cord in the garage.

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