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In a narrow street, on a remote part of town

  • In a narrow street, on a remote part of town SlimWhitman, Slim Dusty and Slim Shady walked into a bar and ordered 3 Slim Fast Shakes from the willowy looking bartender. SlimWhitman

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  • immediately recognised this as a fourth wall breaking story fold, concocted by a friend, but what did that mean for him ? Was he real, or a part of this story. Could he change it ?

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  • No one knew. But that was par for the course in a folding story. Forrest Gump said it best, "Life is like a box of chocolates." you can never trust it when it hits you in the face

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  • And it did, for me. Hit me in the face, that is. People on this site were violent--or maybe it was the site itself that threw the story through the screen.

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  • We all turned to look at the screen door to see what he meant. The latched latch was the only thing holding the screen door form swing open on its hinges. The wind kept trying. Guy

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  • -line snapped and a thirty-foot long post torpedoed nonstop into the screen door and then vaulted undamagingly away. The latched latch bent slightly but held the door safely shut.

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  • I watched triumphantly through my bomb-proof screen door as the diverted bomb bounced back from whence it came. I heard a faraway curse in a foreign language just before it detonat

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  • ed. The shockwave blew me off my feet, sending me across the room where i fell to the floor. "ha, you will never get me!" I laughed hysterically like a psycho killer clown gone nut

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  • -case crazy. The explosion had blown off my hair and face paint, revealing the rainbow wig and big red rubber nose underneath. Drat! My cover was blown! I really was a psycho clown

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  • with a 40,000-volt joy buzzer. I laughed crazily but stopped mid-cackle to find my sulfuric-acid seltzer bottle leaking on my shoes. I hightailed it out of there to epic applause.

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6 Comments

  1. KieferSkunk May 08 2020 @ 18:07

    I feel like we should be titling these stories. I'll call this one "The Killer Clown and the Bomb-Proof Screen Door". :)

  2. Woab May 11 2020 @ 17:09

    Good idea, Keifer!

  3. KieferSkunk May 15 2020 @ 14:40

    Dramatic reading: http://foldingstory.com/8j0wi/a5u4ef/full/

  4. KieferSkunk May 15 2020 @ 14:40

    Well, okay, that's a link to a different story with a dramatic reading, but here's the one for this story: https://voca.ro/1KStNjW0Nnn

  5. LordVacuity May 16 2020 @ 01:12

    Nice readings KS.

  6. Woab May 16 2020 @ 12:54

    Epic applause, Keifer!

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