The Classic Centaur

by Derf Vader

The Classic Centaur

* * *
When my son was three, my wife and I lost him at Epcot.

The replacement kid we took home instead seems to have adjusted well though.

* * *
“Remember how fun the bumper cars at the Carnival Pier, were?” I asked my son.

“Yeah!” he replied enthusiastically as I steered our car into oncoming traffic.

* * *
The beast resembled a classic centaur, except the top half was a beautiful naked woman and the bottom half was a fearsome tiger.

I taxidermied her myself from a tiger I bought from a breeder and a woman I met on Tinder.

* * *
I laughed when the old gypsy woman told me I’d die falling off a chair.

What she didn’t tell me is that it would be kicked out from under me with a noose tied around my neck.

* * *
I knew I had proof we were living in a broken simulation when I rolled snake eyes on the dice for the two-hundredth time in a row.

Whenever I try to show someone else and always roll random numbers instead that’s when I knew the simulation wasn’t broken, it was just cruel.

About the author

Derf Vader is a Florida man who sometimes writes decent stories. You can read more of his work here.

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