Ray's Oh, Jeff Flash Fiction Challenge
Oh, Jeff...I love you, too...but...I can't stay with someone I don't respect.
You've met someone else....
Not at all. It's just that your work doesn't speak to me like Roy's.
So, there's someone else! Wait...who?
Roy...Lickenstein.
Roy...Lichtenstein?
Like I said. He's dreamy.
How can you leave me for him? He's not dreamy, he's dead!
Cretan! Death can never stop true love! We're like Heathcliff and Cathy in Withering Heights.
Wuthering Heights.
Stop repeating everything I say, Jeff! And don't make this harder than it needs to be.
But Babycakes, I thought we had a something real.
Ewww. And Roy never calls me Babycakes.
He never calls you anything. He never calls! Don't sell me short, Baby-err. Just two of my works earned almost $150 million alone!
You make balloon animals, Jeff! You know who makes balloon animals? Clowns!
My balloon animals are made from highly polished stainless steel. They'll last forever. The day after a clown gives little Timmy a balloon animal he'll burst into tears when he sees how it has shriveled.
Timmy can't afford your balloon animals.
Roy sold overpriced cartoons! How is he any better?
But they speak to me. Your balloon animals don't speak.
Wait...they speak to you? Those are speech balloons! I suppose the Mona Lisa doesn't speak to you either.
Pleeease, don't compare yourself to Michaelangelo.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Asshole!
Bitch!
Click.
It's OK now Roy. You can come back in the room. The Cretan hung up.
Two hundred and forty-four Words. With apologies to Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein. This is a work of fiction. Please don't sue me.
About the Creator
John Cox
Twisted teller of mind bending tales. I never met a myth I didn't love or a subject that I couldn't twist out of joint. I have a little something for almost everyone here. Cept AI. Aint got none of that.
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There is a story that originated from the Zuxin Island telling a tale of two dragon brothers. It is believed that the dragons were created by a unnamed God that dwelled amongst The Seven, but remains unknown till this day. This unknown God created the dragons of Ein, but, unlike the dragons of fable, they did not look as such. The image of the dragons are still left to wonder, leaving mortals with only depictions and speculated images of what they once looked like. After the cataclysmic fall of Malacath, which caused the break of the world to transpire and corruption to exist, the dragons became heavily corrupted which altered their makeup. They were changed into large lizard-like demi-Gods whose size ranged from the heights of the heavens themselves, down to the simplest of scalies. They had sharp horns adorn their heads and along their jaws and limbs. They had leathery wings with a wingspan that could encapsulate the entire sky and eclipse the sunar, basking the world in total darkness.
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Comments (21)
Lol your disclaimer made it even better 😂
Funny, funny and so irreverent. Jeff is having a bad few weeks. Good luck.
Haha! Not sure how I missed this one but thanks to Ray’s shortlist, I found it! Clever work, my friend!
Hahahaha! This was brilliant, and I'm still laughing.......
This challenge seems to be popular, everybody is joining in. At first I thought I had lost my mind seeing the same cover photo everywhere, put it produces entertaining entries. Let me dig in, to all your entries. ‘Your work doesn’t speak to me like Roy’s’ 😂 I searched up roy lichtenstein, and I can confirm he’s dead. But the love story must go on. She’s so rude with that clown comment. I mean, Jeff is right about the balloon animals made from actual clowns compared to his. 😂😂😂 oh my gosh the last few lines. 👏🏽👌🏽
LOL! Brilliant & fun! 🤣
OMG, hilarious take on this with the photos too! The comment about clowns had me roaring🤣🤣🤣
Well-wrought and hilarious! Me, I just taped a banana to a wall and hawk tua-ed on it. Waiting for my millions...
Yo-yos next! Onward. Fun read, John. Balloon animals--the mimes of the latex world.
Hahahhaha, this was such a good spin on the picture!
Ha ha! Brilliant. Gotta love a conversation between two artists. I must admit I fall in and out of love with artists, mostly dead, so understand entirely. Really funny piece and great interpretation of the prompt
The way this conversation went, Jeff is better off without her. Withering Heights? Thank your lucky star, Jeff!
Damn, sir! this is bloody brilliant love how you connected all the real world dots! masterful, unique, absurd and a delight!
Hahahahahahhahaha I can sense how frustrated Jeff was! Loved this!
I loved the way this developed! Brilliant!
So entertaining, luv it!!
This was delightful!
Are balloon animals a bad thing?
What a clever take, John! Very humorous dialogue and the mispronunciations were such funny nuggets
Haha. That was such a clever take. Funny too. Well done.
Ah a love that was never meant to be