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Normality In Absurdity's Dinner Time
What is normality anyways ? The state of normal. Not everyone has the same definition of normal. Everyone interprets normal in a different way. In “Dinner Time” , an extremely brief, under 1,000 words flash fiction piece about a married couple who seem to be insane. Almost all of it may sound like it is preposterous, but there are also many normal aspects to the story. Most people don't realize how much of the story is normal. But as the audience will further know, there are things that we do every day that is shared with the characters in the story.
One of the many commonplace things in the absurd fiction is something that can also be considered as a gender assumption but the fact of the woman in the house cooking and the man waiting angrily

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