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"Revision makes your brain explode" said

  • "Revision makes your brain explode" said Tommy, telling fibs to the children once again. He was on the verge of quitting his daytime job as a primary school teacher as everything
  • about it was driving him crazy. That was a short trip for Tommy, though. That same afternoon, he told his students he was training his imaginary brother Ralph to take over after he
  • quit being a house painter and joined that band. Tommy's brother Ralph told him, "You're crazy, we're making 8 bucks an hour and you want to give that up to play drums in a band ca
  • lled 'The Beatles?' Get off ya high horse Ringo and stick with me and my bro Tom. There is no money in music and houses always need paintin'"
  • Ringo erred on the safe side & decided to take the painting gig but waited too long: The job went to some dude named Pete Best. Sadly, Ringo accepted Lennon’s offer to join the Bea
  • tless Expressionistas who were making a big splash in the tony neighborhoods of Liverloop. So he threw his lot in with theirs. His lot consisted of a cot that he fought for naught.
  • He bought his cot at a trundle store, then trundled home to face-plant into it and lament the rueful fact that he'd made a stupid typo on that last fold he wrote. It drove a man to
  • sleep, perchance to dream a dream upon that very cot, that he would one day double-check his spelling before folding. But alas, sometimes time runs out, and the error lives on
  • indelibly staining the otherwise remarkable prose. Errors like this happen. One time he'd missed out a word entirely, and only spotted it after he'd folded and passed. The shame
  • was relived every time that he's see a Folder do it.

2 Comments

  1. St.Molecule Sep 11 2023 @ 05:35

    A case en pointe.

  2. Granite Sep 11 2023 @ 09:19

    The perfect ending St.Molecule :D

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