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Short & Weird | Micro Fiction | Dark Comedy | Senseless Gibberish

Burying The Kid Joe Alive

Beautiful! You look Satanic!

1 min readSep 23, 2025

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Cartoon grave with green hands popping out of the dirt.
Photograph By Gonzalo Sanchez via Unsplash

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The following is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Kid Joe always cracked everyone up. Until the shovel cracked him upside the head. Then, The Kid Joe got cracked up.

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

“Keep screaming!”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

“Hold on, my Mom’s calling. Hi Ma!”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

Scoops of dirt hit Joe in the face as he lay in his grave, wrapped in a trash bag.

“Normal punch first!”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

“Keep twisting, yeah. Keep twisting. Yeah, just like that! Beautiful! You look satanic!”

“Ah! Ah! Ah!”

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Brian Garrio
Brian Garrio

Written by Brian Garrio

Professional Driver. Freight Broker. Novelist. New Yorker. Medium Member since January 10, 2025. Twitter @briangarrio31 Instagram @briangarrio

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The place for strange and funny flash fiction stories (300 words or fewer). If you prefer 301-word stories, then this isn’t the place for you. Come back when you have a shorter attention span. Nah, I’m kidding — stories of any length can be great. But here, it’s all ≤ 300.