New Flash Fiction: The Doris Configuration

We go all post-Apocalypse for our latest flash fiction. It's by Marc Shapiro, a published fiction writer, comic book writer, poet and the author of approximately 50 unauthorized celebrity biographies. His collection of short stories entitled High Strangeness (Chupa Cabra House) is available on Smashwords. His collection of poetry entitled Melancholy Baby (Chupa Cabra House) is also available now. Marc Shapiro actually does this for a living. Don't tell the authorities. (We won't but we can't speak for the NSA! ..Ed)


The Doris Configuration
by Marc Shapiro

History has recorded that thirty seconds before the Apocalypse, Doris Yang vacuumed up a tribe of bed bugs and dust mites. Doris did not survive. But two years after the blast a new species, equal parts bed bug/dust mite, kicked open the vacuum canister and emerged as the only surviving species on the planet. Everything looked peachy for the future of earth until history would further note that Doris, prior to unknowingly creating a new species, had captured a handful of cockroaches for her son’s science project and put them in an ice chest for safe keeping. They also got out. Thanks Doris.