What follows was an attempt to find humour in the event of finding the bottom few shelves of my shared student fridge to be filled with mouldy food courtesy of one negligent flat mate.

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There is nothing quite like returning to your flat after an extended period of time and opening the fridge. Normally, that’s to ensure that your new food and drink is chilled and pleasant for you to sample and devour at will; but on this occasion things were quite different indeed.  After Jasper got over the nauseating smell seeping into his nostrils he was made aware that someone with whom he shared the flat, had seemingly been reading Kafka’s Metamorphosis as a get slim quick guide. Between the mould infested hives that had once been strawberries and grapes that, well were frankly not grapes. It would have seemed that were they the focus of Kafka’s musings they may well have done an exemplary job of preparing an edifying meal. Jasper however was neither the focus of Kafka’s musings nor particularly desperate to try this new attempt at a dietary fad, him being of the disposition that protein shakes were closer to hell than Hull, and more dangerous than asking a Rangers fan if he’s a catholic on derby day.

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Not sure if I will ever continue this but it served quite nicely as an exercise in flash fiction, if nothing else allowing me to find some joy in an otherwise frustrating turn of events.

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Hugh