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Today’s story of the day comes from fwriction’s literary journal, fwriction : review!

Matt Potter, editor of Pure Slush, has written a wicked piece of flash fiction and been kind enough to share it with us.

Stop by and read “Flaming Beauty,” spread the love around, and submit your own work. While you’re there, too, subscribe to fwriction : review (on the left-hand side of the journal) to have new issues delivered each week to your e-mail. Reading boosh!

from “Flaming Beauty”:

An enormous dam of expensive shampoo – our newest product – foamed in the backblocks of the company’s manufacturing plant. It was too costly to dump. And would prove even costlier if we put it on the shelves of every supermarket in Australia.

 “We’re always talking about niche marketing,” I said.

 Twenty honcho-heads swivelled in my direction.

 “So market it to pyro-maniacal beauty contestants.”