I hope you enjoyed your Friday. Here’s my latest “100 Words Stories” microfiction to close the day:

Title: My Idiot Dad

Everything all set up. I signed on the dotted lines. I had become a soldier.

Well, not quite thanks to my idiot dad.

Since I was still in high school, I needed my parents to sign off my recruitment papers. But he refused to do so. Naturally, I was pissed. You’d think 9/11 would have enraged him as much as it did me. He insisted that Iraq had nothing to do with New York.

He didn’t budge, no matter how heated I got. Soon, I dropped the subject.

I didn’t know it at the time, but he saved my life.