Tonight’s Flash Fiction is brought to you by the letter ‘R’ and the number ‘11’. I surmise that it’s NSFW, so you’ll have to go below the cut for it.

It took me about an hour and a half to write and edit it. An adolescent part of me thinks it might be a good idea to challenge EOB posters and readers to do some Flash here.

For those submitted by other than The Seven, who can create their own damn posts, I’ll be happy to create pages here and do posts linking to them, with permanent links out of our Downloads page. Send me an e-mail at eatourbrains-at-gmail.com.

No money, you greedy little narcissists. Creative Commons licensing, which is what we all operate under here.

To qualify as Flash, it must be under 2,000 words. The shorter the better, in this particular game. Mine is exactly 500 words. More points for me.

People might even make comments about your efforts. Remember, there is no Teh Suck here. There is only early draft and learning experience.

On to ‘Memories’:

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This bright Sunday morning we have on the menu some hyper-gravitational rock and roll from the best redneck country band on the scene. Try a hot plate full of ‘Don’t Need You’:

Cross Canadian Ragweed broke out big in 2004, after relentlessly touring for about a decade. Damn near every student at A&M loves them, and has seen them live a dozen times. They’ve been here a bunch, including at this year’s Chilifest in Snook, which is right down the road from College Station. Chilifest is the redneck version of Woodstock.

I’ve missed CCR so far, but plan to remedy that lack as soon as possible. It’s getting harder, because they used to play small venues for cheap, and now they’re headliners.

I have a memory of extended father-daughter exaltation, listening to their ‘Purple Album’ with She Who is Awesome on a soft Friday evening, gliding through the hills and brush outside Dripping Springs on the way to a tree-worshipping neopagan weekend. It’s a classic road-trip album.

They’re far from being a one-trick pony, though. Their song ‘Broken’ will hurt you. I can’t find it on the net, nor can I find their signature song, ‘Boys from Oklahoma’, which is the rowdiest song about smokin’ dope that I’ve ever heard. You might try creating a CCR station at Pandora. I listen to mine often.

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Here are some more CCR vids:

Sick and Tired

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Fightin’ For

Constantly

Alabama

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