This is the 29th in a series of 365 Flash Fiction stories I’m writing. You can find out more about the challenge here.
Punched Drunk, by Jonathan L. Lawrence, 31st December 2012
Word count: 631
Theme: heroes gone bad, sports stars, drunks, shenanigans
The story:
“Duck, duck, dodge, pivot,” Harry Carlos called out.
The kid in the ring dropped his fists and walked towards the ring.
“This isn’t fighting old man,” he said, snottily. Just then his sparring partner hit him across the side of the head. Not so hard, but it sent the young man sprawling. He jumped back up and tried to hit the sparring partner, repeatedly, and missed every time as the sparring partner ducked, and dodged it.
“This is fighting, punk,” the old man in question called up into the ring. “You’ve got a strong punch kid, but you’re not fast enough, and if you don’t learn to avoid punches, this will happen.”
“What?” the kid said turning, and then the sparring partner punched him again.
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