They’ve Refurbished the Women’s Toilet’s on that Floor

A 100-word story that’s “not even that scatological”*

It’s a blue disc where the handle used to be so, now, when you sit down, the first thing that happens is a cold and surprising, flush. Uncomfortably cold. Like when you were a child who craving sick new sensations. But this isn’t a new sensation it’s poor calibration, and as you sit back flush! as you start to piss flush! as you lean forward for flush! toilet flush! paper the stupid flush! sensor keeps on flush!ing until you flush! drop that pissy wad into the bowl and then, no matter how hard you wave, the damn thing won’t flush!

*Zoe Guttenplan, 19 November, 2024