Flying Too High

 by Allison Symes

strong black tea 

So near to the Sun now but unlike Icarus, I was not going to go too high. I knew when to stop. I planned my flight to the last detail. At a certain altitude I would automatically descend so there was no risk of my repeating Icarus’s mistake.

I knew better than to let pride get the better of me.

Well, I thought I did.

I am plummeting to earth as I dictate this into my recording machine.

And I realise there was one thing I had forgotten in my haste to prove myself.

I forgot to check nobody else had chance to interfere with my flying machine.

The last thing I remember seeing before I became airborne was Resbane creeping out of the shed where I kept my device. Resbane who had been dumped by his girlfriend, Strenna, only a day or so ago because she’d found someone new.

That someone new was me.

I guess she will be going back to him after all. 

 

About the author 

Allison Symes, who loves quirky fiction, is published by Chapeltown Books, CafeLit, and Bridge House Publishing. 

Website: https://allisonsymescollectedworks.com/

Books: http://author.to/AllisonSymesAuthorCent.

Her latest flash fiction collection, Tripping The Flash Fantastic, is out in Kindle and paperback.

Her Youtube channel, with book trailers and story videos, is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCiePD4p_vWp4bz2d80SJA/