Short Little Stories

Location: An ordinary everyday bar, filled with all manner of ruffians and ne’er-do-wells.

Action: A young man with a big, full beard swaggers into the room. He takes a seat at the most crowded table, and then breaks out a shot glass and a large silver flask. He pours a strange fizzing substance into the glass, and then downs it in one quick gulp.

“Ah,” he belches, “That hits the spot!”

One of the brutes at the table, a massive hulking figure with the brow of a neanderthal watches him take several more shots, and then growls, “Whatcha drinking, pup?”

The bearded man laughs. “Something you can’t handle, son.”

“Try me.”

The man shrugs. “Suit yourself.” He cocks open the flask again with a lightning-fast flick of his wrist, and tops off the shot glass again, before sliding it across the table to the brute.

His opponent looks at it carefully, then takes a quick gulp of it. A second passes, and then the man’s eyes grow wide, and he opens his mouth once, twice, as though gasping for air, before collapsing under the table.

The rest of the scofflaws chortle, and kick his prone body away while slapping their new pal on the back.

-Pause-

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