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By Ann-Louise Truschel

4/10/2013

 
Many of Ann-Louise's early posts took others' stories and rewrote them to move them on a little, She called it "plagiarism", but I don't think it can be if you acknowledge it? (GL) Got to be something more noble.

Alice loved her cat. He was everything to her – friend, companion, substitute child and hot water bottle, so when he went missing she howled. Alice enlisted the help of a detective agency to find her peripatetic feline.
It seems that the cat was missing because it had been eaten by a python. Fortunately, Nedum - the rural farmer in Nigeria, whose chamber pot the bulging snake was occupying while the slithery creature digested his meal - ran off, called some neighbors, and they killed the python. Well, that is what usually happens when the python is digesting a hen or goat or a cat, it had previously eaten.
A day later, Alice's cat was returned to her, a little soggy and sans several lives, but otherwise none the worse for wear.

Curtain Rods, by Lon Richardson

4/10/2013

 
“He told me he needed the money really bad, that no one else would help him out.”

“So you gave it to him? The new guy? Oswald?”

“Yeah. Lee. When I asked him how much he needed, he said, ‘nineteen dollars and ninety-five cents … plus shipping and handling.’ So, I just gave him twenty-five and told him to pay me when he gets his paycheck.”

“What was so important that he needed the money right away?”

“Curtain rods, is what he told me.”

By Lon Richardson

4/10/2013

 
“Fetch, Duke!”

The ball arc’d over the street. Brakes screeched. Kids screamed.

The ball was never found. Nobody bothered looking.

The Hacker, by Gordon Lawrie

4/10/2013

 
Emma woke suddenly to find herself sitting at the kitchen table in front of her laptop.

Gazing at the screen, she realised she had become engulfed by her own unconsidered actions – well-meant at the time – and she had unleashed such power, such outpourings, as she had never foreseen. Her comfortable life was about to change, if not for ever, then at least for the immediate future.

“What have I started?” she asked aloud. “What can I do?”

Emma’s flatmate heard her from another room. She came through, studied the scene, and said, “You could start by turning the tap off.”
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