Hate Notes

by Vi Keeland

“Occupation: dog-surfing instructor. Hobbies and interests: dogs and surfing. Previous employment: night manager at Deez Nuts.”

I cackled

“I see you learned a lot about professionalism during your time at Deez Nuts.” “Screw you.” “Whoa. Someone needs a ‘Backspace’ key.”

“If I wanted to get something past you, I would, Darling.” “Darling as in my last name, with a big D not a little d, right? That’s okay, I like big Ds.”

Twenty-six years later

I hate decades-later epilogues lol