Flash Fiction: The Over Sleep

by Chris McGinty

The writer went to sleep hoping to be inspired for his daily story. He slept too long and missed his deadline. He was somewhat upset, because it meant that he missed on this dumb streak habit that he’d started, and that’s the whole problem with streak habits in the first place. You have this disproportionate expectation of what you’re supposed to do and how important it is to do it. The more he pondered this, the more he realized that it wasn’t a bad thing at all that he’d overslept.

It was then that he woke up and realized that he hadn’t actually slept that long. He had plenty of time to get his daily story in. He still had no idea what the story would be about though. The writer went to sleep hoping to be inspired for his daily story. He slept too long and missed his deadline.

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