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Between the Couch Cushions

Elven Artisan

Where did it go? He thought to himself in bewilderment. It was just here. He looked under the ragged old couch again, to no avail. Sighing, he knew what he had to do. He cringed, pushing his hand in between grimy couch cushions.

    Doo-wee-doo-dum! Doo-wee-doo-dum! His phone buzzed urgently from the depths of the old ripped couch. That was odd, he never got phone calls. He shrugged it off, pushing his hand toward the obnoxious noise, deeper into the nasty blue and pink couch.

There could be anything in here, he thought. Where did we even get this thing, the city dump? He grimaced, the floral fabric felt moist against his palms. His hand closed around a cold, rectangular object, and he began pulling it out. It didn’t move.

    He groped around, finding it was attached to something else. Slowly, the rectangular object morphed into a more familiar shape. He could feel four- No, five- hard, cylindrical attachments. Before the realization hit him, the cold hand grasped in his own sweaty one suddenly came to life.

Within seconds, it was wrapped tightly around his sweating wrist. It’s grip was rigid as steel. Shrieking, he squirmed. Frantically, he yanked. It was all in vain. The pale hand retracted, the boy’s last scream echoing in it’s wake.

“Jeremy?!” His mother called, frantically running into his little room. Her eyes searched the room over, finally resting on an open window. She smiled, shaking her head in false dismay. “Always giving me a scare, that Jeremy. I hope he remembers curfew.”

She walked briskly out of the small room, humming a lighthearted tune.

Writing Exercise:

Pick a letter, than choose six words that start with that letter. Using those six words, write a silly story.

 

My letter was 'G,' I chose the words great, gargantuan, gorilla, gorge, gander-I watch a lot of British television-, and grill. Here's what I ended up with:

Three Great Steps to Avoid Being Attacked by Gargantuan Gorillas:

1. Don’t gander
2. Let them gorge on children (trust me on this)
3. Don’t attempt to grill them alive, it aggravates them

Just follow these three simple steps and you have a 13% chance of surviving an encounter with gargantuan gorillas! Good luck!