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It was a dark and stormy night when Trumpet,

  • It was a dark and stormy night when Trumpet, the head rooster on the Shadow Ranch noticed something skulking in the shadows near the hen house.
  • It was a wet & bedraggled literary critic. "What was Bulwer-Lytton thinking when he penned the opening lines of 'Paul Clifford'?" He said rhetorically to Trumpet. The head rooster
  • cawed "Pamela! Pamela!" to remind the critic that while Bulwer-Lytton's turgid prose was a pain, there is much worse literature in the world. "Virtue rewarded my ass," the critic
  • tore up the document anyway. He replied with a gusto of superiority, "This story would be suitable to put in my hamster's cage to defecate and urinate upon." Mad, I knocked over hi
  • And Lois. Embarrassed, I begged their forgiveness as I helped them to their feet.
  • "Well, watch where you're going next time," Lois chastised me as she brushed off her smart wool suit and fussed over Superman's cape, which of course showed no smudge. "I am a
  • trained nerd. Don't you know us comic book characters are trying to make a come back Lois insisted while Superman nodded, forgetting he was using his laser beam eyes to
  • Probe the secrets of the universe. The telescope was finely tuned and located on the roof. Superman went up the side of the house to find the secret hiding place for the telescope.
  • Superman decided he needed a handicap.His superpowers were too super & made crimefighting boring so he nolonger flew & used only his nose to scale the house wall.Luther's Telescope
  • was aimed at the stars, waiting to catch Superman in the crosshairs. The destruction of his arch nemesis would just have to wait because Halley's Comet was passing by.
Started
2015-10-19 19:10:20
Finished
2016-10-09 04:55:31

3 Comments

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    SlimWhitman Oct 09 2016 @ 07:09

    I like how Lois from Hi and Lois morphed into Lois from Superman. I imagined Sunday Comic characters coming to life and conversing with the reader before continuing their adventures a frame later. Speaking of 'Hi', welcome back Sundancer, just in time for Halley's return!
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    sundancer Oct 12 2016 @ 03:17

    :-D Glad to be back. I almost forgot all about Folding Story! None of my stories have been finished in months and then all of a sudden I got a notification saying that one of them from 2011 was finished!!!! It brought ne back to the fun!
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    Rebbie Oct 13 2016 @ 14:28

    Welcome back!

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