The Last Pick | Weekly Flash Fiction

This week’s prompts, Wendy Strain’s WOW555 and Inspiration Monday by Stephanie Orges, led to an amusing littletale about a group of… well, I’m not really even sure. You tell me: what are the little buggers?

The Last Pick

The bright lights and loud music had drawn them in. Finnegan said they were like junebugs, bouncing around the crowd, sticking on in a jovial act of sober drunkenness just long enough to take what they wanted. They knew it was true, and so did most in the crowd, but events...