FRITS

Facebook. Reddit. Instagram. Twitter. Snapchat. ~ FRITS ~ are very young, yet they collectively hold great influence in The United States of America and have the power to redefine our core beliefs. In this flash fiction piece of political satire, a man asks his grandson to read a compendium of his past to him. Frits quickly adds his own spin on the narrative until his grandfather is unable to distinguish fact from fiction. Once Frits is done reading to his endearing grandfather, he goes outside to forge another great story with his untamed imagination. The grandfather then trips on a pebble and dies, having forgotten that he couldn't see without his spectacles ~ the same ones Frits had added to his plunder of trinkets earlier that morning.

We give powers to the media that belong to each one of us ~ our voice, our tastes, our sight. Too often we give in to the best-sounding narrative because we are too blind to see the other options. How can we see the beauty in one another when we've willingly handed over our ability to see anything more than "me"? How can we stand for our virtues, our beliefs, our history, when all it takes is something as small as a pebble for us to fall? Answer: We refuse to stop looking for the best in each other.