My first attempt at a "flash fiction" piece. That is, one that's under 1000 words. Barely made it at 993. Not happy with not being able to build it up correctly, but I don't care.

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"See? Didn’t I tell you guys this diner was the best joint in all of New York?” former Private McGuffy asked his war buddies, only lately returned from overseas.

“You said a lot of things, Harry. When do we get to meet this wife of yours?”

Before we get any further, I'll say a little about this. Entai's Journey was my first story ever, written some five/six years ago. It was comprised of something like 30 "chapters" that were little more than a handful of paragraphs of "telling" the story. Now, I thought it was gone forever except by memory, until I found the following story on the old family computer. I remember re-writing a few months after the initial writing, but only getting to a certain point, and I remember (for whatever my young teenage mind's reason) deleting the original as I went.