Your Short Story About Falling
September 14, 2004
Let’s write a collective story. The wonderful mace started this one when she commented on yesterday’s entry. Now it’s your turn to keep the narrative going. Write something short and funny below.
I remember my head impacting against the ground, and then getting up all wet, shaking grass from my hair.
It wasn’t until much later that I remembered the shrieks of the llama, and the retinal imprint of the flash on the reporter’s camera. I don’t think the OPP are going to press charges, but wait until PeTA hears about it! And boy, the itch is killing me.
Steve’s to blame for taking me to the park that day and pointing to Lodo the Llama “Llamas are queer creatures,” he said, giving me a meaningful look. “What do you mean?” I asked, but he just looked away and rubbed his crotch impulsively…
Posted by Tudor at 09:20 PM in Various Positions | TrackBackI was interested to find I wasn’t as surprised as I thought I’d be when Steve whipped his pants off (I didn’t realize he had a pair of those tear away trousers.) It was when he started doing pelvic thrusts with wild abandon that I noticed the llama eyeing us both with disdain, as if to say, “Holy crap, here we go again.”
It was then I realized my feelings weren’t of deja vu, but of repressed memory. So, I did what any reasonably rational individual would do:
Posted by: mace on September 14, 2004 at 10:27 PMI turned to the children gaping at Steve and Lodo and shouted: “Just look away!” And then …
Posted by: s on September 15, 2004 at 09:36 AMI didn’t have to tell them twice; they ran away as soon as I dropped my own pants.
All that remained was to go over that goddamn fence. By the looks of it Steve had crossed that obstacle over many a time, so I let him take the lead.
Posted by: Tudor on September 15, 2004 at 11:00 PM