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Tim lived in a rundown cinder-block walk-up

  • Tim lived in a rundown cinder-block walk-up known to most of the adults in Huntsville as "that goddamn eyesore on Maple Street" and to all of the children as "the murder tower."
  • Now you may know of Huntsville as Rocket City or Moon Town, but to the locals it is known as Haint City, because it is a Hellmouth, more or less, & that walk-up is the front door.
  • I didn't know it. Over th door a sign read "Huntsville Warm & Cosy Retirement Home". I signed the contract to transfer my worldly possessions & took the lift down to my condomonium
  • . The lift went down past were I thought my condomonium would be. A voice sounded. I adjusted my hearing. "Welcome to Huntsville Retirement Home & Hunger Games. Prepare Warrior!"
  • I'd just enough time to pop a single Geritol as the alarms sounded, beginning the deadly competition. Out the metal doors I limped, straining to be the first to reach the antique
  • carousel music box which contained the key. My competitors stumbled out into the light, blinking furiously in the brightness. Luckily I'd taken my vitamins and had the advantage.
  • "STOP!" I shouted at them, raising my one and only superpower: My Deflecto-Hands. My nemeses (plural) staggered backwards. "The key is MINE & so is THE UNIVERSE!" I declared.
  • My nemeses (five by then) grumbled and smirked, contorting their freaky faces, mocked me with a boy-band version of "Stop! In the Name of Love" then charged. My Deflecto-Hands
  • sent out a force field that sent the Five Little Peppers tumbling quickly away from me. By then my Deflecto-Hands were depleted, and the Peppers were re-grouping. I had to think of
  • a way to repel them. I conjured up 5 Little Onions, which I introduced to the 5 Little Peppers. While they got acquainted, I chopped them up and fried them with steak. Delicious!
Started
2015-01-07 17:29:32
Finished
2018-03-29 13:13:11

2 Comments

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    PurpleProf Mar 29 2018 @ 13:18

    Welp, this is about as exciting as it gets at the Huntsville Retirement Home Hunger Games. Also, another great ending from TarotGuy!
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    SlimWhitman Mar 29 2018 @ 14:11

    Is that the makings of the famous Huntsville Peppersteak sandwich?

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