Sucking Candy Demise

by Eli Evans

For the sake of his continued survival, a man with various medical conditions is advised by his doctor to stop consuming a certain sugary sucking candy with which he shares a long history. The man, not yet having nothing left to live for, agrees that the next such sucking candy he consumes will be the last; however, when he submits to temptation and chews the delectable little nugget up instead of slavering it into a disappearing sliver as God intended, he feels morally obliged to consume another, and then another and another and another and another, until at last he realizes he really is going to die. The man’s final wish is for someone to dedicate a poem to his memory, but as I am not a poet, he will have to settle for this small story instead.

Eli S. Evans has published work in the last several months or will publish work in the next few months in Maudlin House, Cowboy Jamboree, (mic)ro(mac), The Dribble Drabble, Queen Mob's Teahouse (RIP), MacQueen's Quinterly, Sublunary Review, and A Thin Slice of Anxiety, among others. A small book of small stories, Obscure & Irregular, can be purchased via Moon Rabbit Books & Ephemera or the usual online retail and distribution behemoths. A larger book of smaller stories is forthcoming from the same just in time for we're not yet sure which holiday, but possibly National No Pants Day on May 1st.