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How could I have forgotten that hotel room

  • How could I have forgotten that hotel room full of smoke? Lana'd gotten a bag of loose cigarettes and over the two weeks, the room took on hazy strata. I'd count the layers and

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  • followed the vapor trails, tenuous trails and whorls of blue haze, a vortex of chaotic tangles. But Lana had disappeared, literally gone up in smoke. I opened a window

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  • up and let out the choking fumes, before collapsing along the black-stained wall. The smoke alarm didn't even seem to work. "Lana, where have you gone?" I murmered, waking up

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  • from my drugged stupor. "Dude! I gave you one simple instruction! Do not let the magic parakeet pee fire on our worldly possessions!" Lana had a point. But magic parakeet's were

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  • a free-spirited sort. You can't just go around telling such a creature where, when,and on whom it should pee its magical fiery urine. It doesn't work like that. As our house burned

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  • we took stock of our situation. All our possessions gone, we decided to craft a quick sail from leaves and a poncho and used it to catch the updraft from the blaze. Once above the

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  • blazing forest we noticed a lake nearby. It was our best bet so we caught the fire's thermals and glided towards it. We landed with a splosh only to find that the lake

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  • was stocked with pseudotrout. We made our way to the lake's shore as our glider sank, fearing the worst regarding potential pseudotrout reportage. Their allegiance was

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  • unknown at first, but soon we saw they carried sabres and red flags emblazoned with a skull surrounded by green concentric circles. Whoever they were, they weren't pseudofishermen.

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  • They were Gordon's fishstick fisherman. The worst of the lot. The squalls threatened, blood was in the air. Today was a good day to die because I am, forever, Julius Flounder.

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5 Comments

  1. SlimWhitman Jul 02 2015 @ 17:16

    This is pretty awesome writing

  2. PurpleProf Jul 02 2015 @ 22:58

    Haha! Love this one! Good job, everybody!

  3. Perronicus Jul 04 2015 @ 08:23

    Apart from me somehow managing to misspell and!

  4. SlimWhitman Jul 04 2015 @ 08:49

    That's why I always use '&'. Less risk of dropping two out of three letters that way ;-)

  5. Perronicus Jul 04 2015 @ 08:54

    Yeah that's a good idea, I'll do that in the future :)

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