Canned Laughter

Todd has a secret crush on his bro housemate Will, but he’s too shy to do anything about it. After Will’s expensive flat-screen TV breaks just before the big game, he and Todd find a dusty old set in the basement and haul it upstairs. It works, but the only show they can get is Honest to Todd, a cliché old sitcom neither of them has ever heard of. The more Will enjoys it, the more creeped out Todd becomes, until the boundaries between the real world and the sitcom world start to break down.

Canned Laughter is a 9,200-word short story. All content in this story is fictional and describes activities between consenting, unrelated adults who are 18+.