Countdown by Gerry Webber
Ten green bottles
Nine of them empty
Eight pm.
Seventh heaven, or so I think.
Six lads looking for trouble
Five consonants and two vowels, please Carol… “fuck off”.
Four policemen arrive.
I’m still three sheets to the wind.
Two fingers to the officer.
One born every minute.
Blast.
Off to the station.
© Gerry Webber 2013
An anthology of modern short fiction recounting the quirkiness of the everyday, featuring DJ Mac and others.
DJ Mac is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland who fouters (dithers) with an itchy, scratchy pen in the moments when the bewilderment provoked by life settles. He is easily distracted by the bright pictures in his gallery.
