CPSC Micro-fiction #11

CPSC Notice 6/16/10

Entertainment Centers Recalled by American Signature Due to Fall Hazard – The recalled entertainment centers’ shelves can detach and fall onto consumers when the entertainment centers are moved. American Signature Inc. has received four reports of the shelf above the television collapsing, causing two injuries. Injuries include a child who was struck on her fingers and an adult who required stitches to his mouth. There were also two reports of minor property damage.

Micro-fiction 6/16/10

The light flickered as the channels changed. The men and women moved into one another; their words stuttered and combined into a meaningless language of grunts, moans, and ejaculated syllables; their hairstyles merged and blended in a cloud of color; their bodies met and twisted, finding joint and union in the open, secreting orifices of the moments between shots; the scenes spun around each other, pivoting on access points of revolving light, wall, fashionable furniture, and the littered food items, the stars and planets of colliding galaxies and boiling nebulae; this plot of utterly doomed human astrology spelling out the places and times, war and seduction, fatigue and respite, story and meaninglessness, crashed down like disintegrating airliner across open sea en route to paradise, leaving vast swaths of narrative wreckage floating in slicks of emotional mirth, and we were meant to receive this eucharist as the point, the entertainment value, the take away message, the happy ending, the orgasm before bed; but suddenly the whole thing came detached from the wall, smashing downward and exploding in glass and hot fragments of ceramic, a massive shard of jagged plastic housing flipping outward and catching me on the mouth, ripping open my skin a good two inches upon that edge and sending a flood of hot iron across my tongue and down my throat.

For information about this series, please see the introductory post.