Becca Yurok

“A Suspicious Phone Call” by Becca Yurok

Submitted to Contest #186

“Hello?  He-llo!?  Is anyone there? HELLO!”‘Uh yes…Good day…”“You’re lucky! I was just about to hang up! “It must be a bad connection, sir.”“Maybe…but I think that you must mean ma’am.”“Oh yes…I am very sorry for my mistake, please accept my apologies…ma’am.”“Whom am I speaking with?”“Yes, ma’am. This is officer Joseph and I am calling from the Canadian Revenue Agency, badge number 55- ”“Your voice sounds very familiar…do I know you from somewhere?”“No, I don’t believe so. As I was saying, I am ca...

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“Urgently Going Back to Work” by Becca Yurok

Submitted to Contest #155

The venti latte had been a mistake.  Maybe not as much as picking drive thru, as opposed to using that time to use the coffee shop’s washroom.  If anything, the coffee was fine.  In fact, it was exactly what I had needed to prepare for the day.  Even the drive thru had been prompter than I had remembered.  However, now I desperately needed to go pee. Earlier, when I had rushed out of my condo, I could feel the slight tingle of my bladder.  However, I knew was on a tight time line ...

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“Tale of a Teacher and the Sixth Grade Psychic” by Becca Yurok

*This is a story very loosely based on a particular incident when I made a rash of baby predictions when I was 12. Wrote this from the perspective of my teacher. Some details have been changed.*I hadn’t thrown up - not yet, anyway.  You know when something is not quite right?  I was tired all of the time, but, with a full time teaching job and three sons, ages 5 to 9, exhaustion was my baseline.I have always loved kids, so my life of being an English, French,  and Art teacher and mom was pretty ideal. &nbs...

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“The Smart Fridge” by Becca Yurok

Submitted to Contest #150

It had been on a whim that Sabrina had entered the draw:   “Win a Cutting Edge of Technology Smart Fridge - The First Fridge to Help YOU Succeed in All of YOUR Weight Loss Goals.”  That morning, she had weighed herself. 200 pounds. On her 5’5” frame, it wasn’t the end of the world, maybe, but it was the heaviest that she’d ever been.  Sabrina was determined to obtain a gym pass the second she left work - and actually use it this time.  Maybe that would put a stop to her mother’s passive aggressive comments a...

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“There Must Be Something in that Hot Dog” by Becca Yurok

Submitted to Contest #149

The frankfurter monument in all of its colossal, veiny glory looked perverse at certain angles. It was built to bring tourism to the small community…or so they said, Monica reflected. The truth was, most of the surrounding towns had resorted to boasting “The Biggest” fill-in-the-blank, in a desperate attempt to resuscitate the economy. For what it was worth, that was what the town was known for: The hot dog plant and frankfurter, well, everything. Even the Mayor was a big wig on the factory’s board of directors.Since most...

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“The Fourth Date” by Becca Yurok

Submitted to Contest #147

It had been a year since I’d had sex.  A very long year. You’d think that an especially dark theatre would be a great omen for a fourth date with the perfect guy. I had tried online dating half heartedly before.  No, not Tinder.  For a 29…okay, 34 year old woman, the guys I met online tended to consider me kind of old fashioned due to my no sex before four dates rule.  But this time was different. For one, he seemed to really agree with my no social media stance. When I perused Instagram, Facebook, Twitter a...

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