Prompt: Refresh
Word Count: 197
“Come on. Load.” James said, as he jammed his finger down on the mouse, hitting the refresh button over and over. He had spent months saving up, but he also knew this moment would come. The servers were overloaded, everyone else that wanted tickets was probably doing the same thing he was right now. Still, his brain did not want to believe that it was some technical error or too much stress on a machine somewhere. He needed those tickets.
After the 27th hit of the refresh button, the page loaded. James scrambled to fill out all of his information, checked his credit card number twice, and hit the “Purchase” button. For a moment, the blue wheel at the top of his page spun, indicating the page was trying to load. He resisted the urge to click his mouse again, for fear he would end up ordering 10 tickets instead of just 2.
James held his breath, waiting for the feared page that would tell him that his browser was unable to load the confirmation page…
And then it worked. James had done it. He was going to Comic Con for the first time in his life.
Flash fiction is short fiction, often under 500 words and often written in a short space of time. If you would like to do your own piece of flash fiction, feel free to put it in the comments or link me to the place you post it. I would love to see what you come up with for the prompt.
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