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Friendship Funerals

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Author: Fredrick Martyn

Fredrick MartynSeptember 7, 2019

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Friendship Funerals

written by: Fredrick Martyn

@FredrickMartyn

Friendship funerals

Rest in peace camaraderie

From amity calamity

To many different eulogies:

“Feelings got involved”

“They left when I was down”

“Our friendship was toxic”

“We’re just so different now”

Wait! – open that casket!

I think this one’s still alive!

But who am I to say

Up to them to decide

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Fredrick Martyn

Fredrick Martyn is a Sri Lankan-Canadian writer, poet and medical student currently based in Washington, DC. His humor and poetry have appeared in Points In Case, Slackjaw, GomerBlog, Pulp Poets Press and The Online Journal of Community and Person-Centered Dermatology among other places.

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I live in the small town of Long Lake, Minnesota, west of Minneapolis. I worked many years as a sales and technical training instructor. I began writing seriously in 2011 by writing a poem a day for a year. I loved the process and stayed with, focusing on rhymed poems and haiku. In 2015 I met a fellow writer who encouraged me to begin writing short stories. I did. In early 2018 I submitted my first story on-line and it was featured on CafeLit. I have been off and running since then. Bridge House Publishing is releasing a collection of twenty-seven of my stories later in 2020. I love the process of coming up with an idea and creating a story that hopefully has both emotional impact and is interesting to read. I have no plans on stopping. Many thanks to Spillwords for featuring my stories, and thank you to those who read them and who voted for me. It is truly an honor to have been selected as Author of the Month.