This is a series of stories about the drama and trauma of my pet fish. As a new fish owner, I began to write down all of my failures and successes. These experiences quickly became pieces of flash fiction told from the fish’s point of view that I posted on Facebook. As the stories became longer, I realized Facebook was not the right medium for them, and they have now found a home on this blog. The stories are told as written accounts from newspapers, journals, letters, and police reports. As you, hopefully, enjoy these embellished stories, keep in mind that the authorities and doctors are not fish.
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Ninja Smee’s Reflection Journal
4/11/16 I have live fry in my mouth. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to convince Beetlejuice (the obnoxious jerk) to breed again. I had to be extra sweet, and unfortunately, people noticed. But I must have children! I deserve to be loved, and I deserve to be able to love, and since Beetlejuice…
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Beetlejuice’s Reflection Journal
3/28/16 Smee propositioned me once again. Her constant needling until I lose my temper, her pathetic display when I rip her fins to shreds so she’ll leave me alone, and the authorities constantly blaming me for our problems should be enough to get me from ever glancing in her direction. But, gah, it’s nice to…
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Algae Chronicles: Gossip Pages
Journalist Kyle Sand abandons The Bubbly Review Despite being rehired to keep The Bubbly Review open during Christmas week, Kyle Sand refused to come in, stating: “All the other journalists got the week off. It’s only fair that I get the week off, too.” He then slammed the door in the editor-in-chief’s face. “Although we originally fired him…
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Journalist Acquires the Official File on the Ongoing Baby Investigation.
Because Kyle Sand is an exceptional journalist, who should not have been fired over a few misunderstandings involving fire, The Bubbly Review has the exclusive on the investigation for the missing babies. Read on: Case number: 7009845 Date: 15 February 2018 Reporting Officer(s): Inspector Fishnet Case: Beetlejuice and Smee’s Missing Fry I have little hope that I…
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A Journalist Has Returned!
The Bubbly Review gave in to the demands of their journalists insisting on doing NaNoWriMo and ignoring all other, and dare we say paid, projects. The publication expected they’d return to work on December 1, 2023, signaling the end of Author Self-Inflicted Torture Month, but this did not happen. Journalists contacted the editors and stated that…
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Public Announcement
The journalists at The Bubbly Review decided to join NaNoWriMo and commit to enjoying the trials, tribulations, and midnight weeping of writing a novel in thirty days At first the editors of The Bubbly Review were fine with this, until it became obvious that the journalists’ were going to complete NaNoWriMo at the cost of…
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Society Pages
Birth Announcements As The Water Swirls neighborhood welcomes sixteen black and white Frontosas to their spacious twenty-eight-gallon tank. We aren’t exactly sure when they were born, but they emerged from the protection of their mother’s mouth last night at 7:17 p.m. Proud Papa, Beetlejuice hangs out underneath the breeder tank. If he sees the…
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Dr. Nurse Shark’s Medical Records: Smee’s Jaw Alignment
After practicing jaw alignment movements with my thumb and forefinger, I prepped the tank for Smee’s procedure by putting Beetlejuice in jail. After removing the partition and catching Smee in the net, I held Smee while I massaged her jaw. I’d hoped that she would open her mouth a tiny bit so I could push…
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Dr. Nurse Shark’s Medical Records
Ninja Smee’s chart This evening, I noticed that Ninja Smee’s jaw was sitting slightly crooked and jutting out, and she could barely open her mouth. I might not have noticed if she hadn’t wiggled through a gap in the tank divider when it was dinnertime and swam up to where the food caught the current…
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Authorities take action to prove that they are not heartless, but some disagree.
The situation in the Supermax Prison/Palace of Pain reached a crescendo last week. Authorities finally confronted their dark side and realized that Brain/Einstein was in danger of dying and maybe they should care a bit more. The failure of getting FishFlash to risk their lives to bring him his food probably helped them reassess and…
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