Blue Horizon: Literature Blues.

257-word Blue Horizon flash-fic written and posted on 03/06/25.

Author's notes: Written for reasons. If you found this at random but were inattentive to how, it was because you accidentally clicked Alejandro's portrait in Gallery 1 (Magnify).

Blue Horizon: Literature Blues.

Antonio was vexed. He spun a little on his office chair by a snacks-littered desk, letting his dark hair fall back against the chair’s frame so that he could glare up at the ceiling. He’d always wound up hearing the rantings and ravings of a madman—his fraternal twin brother Raj’s!

Raj was already back in university and taking online courses quick, overwhelmed by his second year…! He was pedantic as fuck over every paper ever. He was obsessed. He needed all of it to go beautifully.

Antonio was sick and tired of this man invading his study, the one very cramped with toppling literature, haphazard spell books, and stupidly half-empty bookshelves. The man was sleeping on his worn velvety sofa again…! He liked the warmth of over-crowded places, it seemed.

Antonio was sick. He hadn’t wanted to understand perfectionism. Instead he had learned, staring at the Worldscope browser on his astra…

His beautiful fan-fiction he’d written several years back, at that young age of 15, this beautiful fan-fiction involving Alejandro’s amazingly furry characters…

It’d turned out to have five grammatical errors! He’d gotten so much better at certain syntax editing Raj’s essays for a fee…! This was unforgivable. Unthinkable.

Why had Alejandro been so happy at 15…? His long dark hair had flown everywhere as he’d gone and embraced him without even a shoulder in the way. Those red eyes had sparkled, reflecting his own stupid puppy dog Red. He’d hugged him in the middle of their sunlit dorm halls and everything, where everyone could see…!

( fin. )