Session Dec 6 2014

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"The doctor looked up from his charts with a grim expression."
by BG

The doctor looked up from his charts with a grim expression. My Mom had been waiting for over an hour for him to advise her what the test results wold be. It had taken such a long time to get everyone tested and gather the results but the time had finally come for the medical team to provide us with a prognosis for our future. May parents needed to know what we could do about our situation and how our future life would change so we could all live with the affliction our family now faced. The doctor sat down beside my Mom and handed her an envelope. She took it, opened it and gasped. The doctor put his arm around her and patted her shoulder. He said, There, there, Gertrude, your family will adjust. This family in the photo went through the same experiences as your family. See how nicely they have adjusted?

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"Drake and Dolly loved one another from afar."
by GS

Drake never liked her name, but she loved pastries and was often found outside the general store munching away. Dolly came from the other side of town where baguettes were unknown, so she also often ended up outside the store. They looked cute munching away while avoiding any contact, both afraid to make the first move. Drake and Dolly loved one another from afar, and sadly they never spoke.

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"All this is making me queasy," she said."

by RC

Christy had looked forward to her vacation and her exciting trip for so long! And what a trip! No one she knew had ever gone to the Borneo forest valley. In fact, she hadn’t even know where this place was when she signed up; it just seemed to marvelous from the brochures that the little man in the travel shop had shown her. He had been a very unusual guy, about four feet tall with a dark suit, a tie, and a bone through his nose. That last took her aback for a moment, but the price for this all-expense paid trip was the clincher.

Well, she couldn’t go alone, so she had recruited her friend Suzy to go with her. When they got off the plane in Borneo, they got on a bus; and from the bus, they got on donkeys; and from the donkeys, they got on something that she didn’t recognize. It was some kind of bird, rather like an ostrich, she thought. Finally, in a very remote looking quarter of the country, with nothing but jungle around her, and standing in a small clearing, they brought up a few animals that Christy just could not believe. Take a rhino and add the wings of a dragonfly, and that is what she saw—except that the wings were very large, as befits a creature of that size.

Poor Christy and Suzy! They actually had to ride one of these creatures, not on the ground, but in the air! It was the only way, their guide assured them, to get to the Borneo forest valley. Christy wondered how they would stay on behind the animal’s neck, but the guide told them to grasp its ears. Suzy insisted on riding with Christy, and she wrapped her arms around her friend’s waist. There were ten tourists at the beginning. Somewhere above the clouds, Christy turned to Suzy.

“All this is making me queasy,” she said. At that moment, a gust of wind caught them, and try as they might, they could not stay on the back of the animal. Glancing around calmly as she fell, Christy could see others who were in the same predicament, all of them heading for a great lake beneath them. She also noted that there were men on the lake in boats, already scooping up one or two tourists. No doubt they had reached the valley. “Well,” Christy thought as they plummeted down through the clouds, “this is certainly turning out to be the trip of a lifetime.”

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“Don’t look back, they told her, and she never did.”

By CC

Valentina never felt comfortable in school. The other children ignored her, or, worse, mocked her. It wasn’t her fault she was born with three arms. She used to fantasize about living in another culture where this sort of thing would be seen as a special gift, or at least a useful development.

Her mother certainly found it helpful when they were cooking together. And she was able to fix her hair in extremely complicated knots and whorls without any special effort. She would have been good at test taking too, but using the arm at school just brought on waves of suppressed tittering that surged around the room.

Bah, she thought. One day walking home from school she saw an odd looking little man sitting on a fence near the corner where she turned to go home. He nodded to her and asked how she was. She said fine and walked quickly past him, but then the man said, “Not so fast, little chicken. I’ve come a long way to find you. I think you could be a very important person.”

Intrigued, Valentina turned back. He told her that in his country she would be loved and appreciated for her skills. She thought about it and when she realized she wouldn’t have to go back to school the next day, she said, OK. “Don’t look back,” they told her, and she never did.

Five years later Valentina was living in Siberia, wearing a great pelt that kept all her arms warm. She wasn’t precisely happy but she liked fishing and farming and taking care of the old man's pigs and dogs. It was straightforward and the animals didn’t say things that upset her. She didn’t miss her lessons and she didn’t miss her family. Hmm, she thought one day. All along I thought my problem was the third arm. But now I think I have Aspergers. And that was just fine with Valentina. She went back to the creek to haul three buckets of water back to the shack.

"Even if he wanted me to go with him, I didn't want to go."
by AD

Even if he wanted me to go with him, I didn't want to go. My friend Castor said I should come with him to a Christmas party because I have become somewhat of a recluse, but you probably would be too, if you had antlers coming out of your head. I didn't like going to parties with Castor either because five minutes after walking through the door he would act like the Creature of Match.com and introduce  me to a random girl. I appreciate what he's trying to do but it's a good start go going crazy if the only people who would will date you are Vegans, purries or girls who worship P.E.T.A.

She was different, though. She was nice and we talked for the rest of the party. I got her number, and the next day called her but she was angry since the phone's ringtone sounded like the buck she was after. She was a hunter. Please let me know if I make it on the First 48.

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"Ethel was slow but she wasn't as dim-witted as her father thought."
by PV

Well, Gregg thought, as he lugged his way across the field, Ethel was slow but she wasn't as dim-witted as her father thought. Of course in his bullish mind how could he be anything to his amiable sister?  She even knew which of the buried limbs underground were the prized Kuari trees. Hell of a nose, Gregg thought, as Ethel gave her best bovine grin to him.

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"Arturo found it under the bed, by the headboard."
by RMAF

Carlos Mano Arturo Frideo the "Big S" found it under their bed, by the headboard: her engagement ring. Estella Isabella Carmella Maria Sihanchey-Rodriguez had enough of trying to tell her beau that she could do a backwards flip off the Sears Tower and then sail around the city and land in Buckingham Fountain. Now, on their first anniversary, she will prove her superwoman powers to him.

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"It had been his favorite watch before she had lost it."
by TNT

He opened a can of peaches, ate half and let the rest get moldy on the counter. He could have at least put them in my refrigerator, she thought, annoyed. "I hate to see food wasted," she said "Geez, you'd think I'd murdered your dog - it was only a can of peaches," he scoffed. "Ill buy you another!" He turning to her with a dismissive grin. This annoyed her more. She knew it meant, so what? Big deal from nothing. Just stuff from a mere woman's noggin. You chauvinist prig, she thought as she stomped off.

When she left for work later she grabbed his wristwatch from his bureau. She did't want to be late. Her supervisor was always clocking her. "We can't have this tardiness," the Supervisor scowled as she scurried to her place. "I"m not late," she replied. "Oh yes you are! By four and a half minutes, Ms. Brown. It's Ex-Actly 5 until 8 a.m. by the clock. I'll have to write up another late employee card. You have had your very last chance. Next time you'll be fired."  "Oh, OK," she sighed. It was going to be another day like that.

She climbed up he ladder and walked out on the platform in her tutu with the parasol. She was doing the Mambo dance when she saw him below. She waved. The watch fell. It had been his favorite watch. Now she had lost it. She was afraid to go down and face him.

But he was smiling. "Look, baby," he said. "Someone dropped a Rolex right out of the sky. A bloody miracle!" She lowered her false eyelashes ad quickly went back to change her costume.