Take a Look in the Box
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by David Clarkson (1041 Words) Where to begin? Openings are never easy; whether it is opening a story or opening a box. More so when opening a story about opening a box. Sometimes it’s best to go right ahead and do it.
So that’s what we’ll do. We’ll open the box as we open the story. Then all that is left to do is take a look inside. “Well?” asked the owner. “What do you see?” The vet stared into the box. There was no need to check for a pulse. They had enough experience of death to be able to spot it anywhere. “Your cat is dead,” they told the owner. “Are you sure?” |
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The sun beat down on our driveway. I was cleaning out the garage a year or two after moving in, trying to organize my workshop. The neighborhood had gotten used to having an Out Gay Male Couple living among them by then. The careful, curious watching time was over for most of them on the street.
We'd made friends with several households in that borrow-a-cup-of-sugar kind of way. Warren, the guy who lived with his girlfriend of twenty years, saw me in the garage and stopped by with a cold one to share. All of a sudden he blurts out, "So, which one are you?" |
by R.R. Angell (126 Words)
Power Tool Drag Races by Scott Beale | Flickr
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Enlightenment
The Dalai Lama's Birthday by Francis Mariani | Flickr
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by Tori Fredrick (606 Words) She was the kind of woman who could make the Dalai Lama loot a liquor store. When considering the different varieties of females – shrews, harridans, harpies, cougars, MILFs, inflatable – Rita found herself contented to fall into the category of “temptress.” If the Dalai Lama taught her anything, it was to be grateful for life’s small blessings.
The morning after the robbery, they lay wrapped together in his orange monk’s robe, sharing skin and a Manhattan. Bald men loved her – she sometimes had to fight them away from her bulbous, exquisite breasts. The Dalai Lama added a touch of the exotic to her conquest journal, in which she rated his lovemaking a four out of ten. She didn’t give anybody special treatment. |
Doggerel [ daw-ger-uhl ] adj. 1. (of verse) comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. 2. rude; crude; poor. |
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one tiny elephant
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