"OUTSIDE IN"
by Jerry Stamatelos

They had known each other for a year. Strictly friends. Really. No sex or anything like that.

But friendship is like a discolored thread sometimes.

She wanted to feel huge storms of love. He had many relationships. Some short lived, some shorter.

He went for the appetizingly wrapped women on Jeannie Becker’s FTV. She didn’t look anything like them.

She had a head on her shoulders and a sense of humor though.

She wailed and thrashed inwardly, until one Thursday when she asked him to a friend’s restaurant opening.

After three months of dating, she became stunning.

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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. We ran "The Wedding Gift" the other day.

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