Flash Fiction #219 – In the Dumps

Flash Fiction #219 – In the Dumps

“Wanna be scared?” Phyllis smiles, clicking into a You-Video channel. Each thumbnail displays a trash can.

“So?” Seymour shrugs.

She clicks a video, scrolls halfway through and points. “They move. Like someone’s barely alive in there.”

Seymour rolls his eyes. “Bullshit. It’s a shtick.”

Phyllis clicks the comments section. Users have written, I don’t believe, over and over again. “Go ahead. Comment then,” said Phyllis.

Seymour disappears a year later.

A week later @inthedumps posts a new video.