"THE WEDDING GIFT "
by Jerry Stamatelos

They received a bottle of Dom Perignon as a wedding gift. When a special occasion arose, they promised to open it.

She completed her MBA. Nothing.

She gave birth. Still nothing.

She divorced. Pop!

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Jerry Stamatelos shapes young minds in Montreal. When he's not witnessing wide-eyed idealism in the classroom these days, he's busy working on his PhD thesis about Joseph Conrad. Flash fiction is a healhty preoccupation -- for now.

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