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Brett had teased Samantha since the beginning

  • Brett had teased Samantha since the beginning of fifth grade. When this insecure, overweight girl threatened him with a water balloon, he never imagined that she would follow thru
  • -mmy faced person like himself. Brett was the fifth grade teacher, and despite the creative abuse he heaped on fat Samantha, his pupil, she "imprinted" on him. She followed ev
  • en the faintest smell of lasagna in hopes that she could wolf it down. Knowing this, Sam's teacher loaded a tomato-sauce-scented bullet
  • into the chamber. He wasn't sure the scented bullet was going to work, but he was desperate, under pressure to produce results in the classroom. No Child Left Behind had
  • reduced him to a shrivelled husk of the man he used to be. He put the barrel of the gun in his mouth & pulled the trigger. Scents of cloves & cinnamon filled the air. His attempt
  • at suicide failed miserably, which resulted with the surrounding crowds to mock his new-found and everlasting life. The knowledge that he could not die was too much, he must find a
  • suitable hobby to occupy his mind for the long stretch ahead. Stamp-collecting, geology, archaeology -- nope. For now he would serve coffee to the poor mortals in a diner in
  • the Calico Cat Cafe. He hated cats, the feeling of one rubbing against his bare thigh while its fluffy tail swished about in his diner skirt. Noone knew he was actually to God of
  • Catatonia & this was his purgatorial nightmare. Another cat jumped down onto his table seemingly from nowhere & began gnawing on his tunafish salad. Huge welts appeared across his
  • chest. It was like all the cats had banded together to destroy him, and his tunafish salad. The claws dug deep, deep enough to finally spark him to action, reaching for

5 Comments

  1. RoboRoach Jan 16 2014 @ 23:12

    I did not realise it was the last line. Very sorry. I am new here. Such a terrible failure.

  2. lucielucie Jan 17 2014 @ 16:51

    ... reaching for his inhaler, he covered the salad with catsup & ate it all up. There, all finished. No worries, RoboRoach & welcome. And welcome to thailor - your eyeball disturbs me.

  3. RoboRoach Jan 17 2014 @ 17:27

    Thanks lucielucie. Site looks like fun.

  4. PurpleProf Jan 17 2014 @ 18:44

    Samantha. "I'm sorry. SO sorry..." Brett whispered and he bent his head in true remorse. A bright beam of light shone down on him & he heard a booming voice. "You are forgiven. Now, get back to the classroom. Your students are waiting."

  5. BlastedHeath Jan 17 2014 @ 20:11

    No problem, RoboRoach! That could easily be read as the narrator getting blindsided, which is a nice change from the silly "Oh the horror! How it approacheth! Why I write instead of run I cannot .... [trailing scrawl]" ;-) And so ... http://foldingstory.com/3vapg/

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