Flash! Fiction 3 by Peter McMillan - HTML preview
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“Drinking money. What a great idea Cami! How ‘bout you run that one by Percy?”
“Can’t blame a girl for dreaming. And if the gods are listening, mine’s pretty modest compared to some.”
“Hey, did you see that? Puck right in the kisser. God that had to hurt. There’s blood all over the ice.”
“Think we should cheer, too?”
“God no! That would be like— What’s that German word—means when you get off on somebody else’s pain?”
“Schadenfreude.”
“You came up with that pretty fast.”
“Yeah, well everybody’s using it these days—except maybe tweet-ers. Personally, I try to enjoy some everyday. Got it from meine mutter. She spoke German. She used it a lot when she talked about her mutter.”
“So, you speak German?”
“Just enough to insult you without your knowing it, but not enough to qualify as business bilingual, Verdammit.”
“Whoa! They’re taking the guy off in a stretcher. That’s gotta be more than a mouthful of broken teeth.”
“Guess that’s what it means to get royally pucked.”
“Wow, you’re vicious tonight. What gives?”