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Spring Flowers

  • Spring Flowers
  • May Showers
  • bring water to your wilted geraniums and may worms create a delicious compost." Judd found it harder and harder to write for Hallmark.
  • Always eager to push the envelope, Hallmark's greeting card business wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Judd had to get out of there before he wrote another sappy "Get Well
  • Soon” card. Judd felt his destiny was meaningful writing, like restaurant menus or supermarket flyers. The Hallmark gig had allowed him to save a bit, so with $10.78 in his wallet
  • He returned to that one stationary store near the food court & purchased that dusty leatherbound journal that he had seen two years ago when getting a gift for Annie. Momentary sad
  • ness erupted from his brown eyes, trickled down his cheeks, & plopped onto the cashier's fingers as she extended his $2.13 in change. Embarrassed, he glanced up. Annie!
  • "Sorry, Hon," she said as she dropped the change into hand, "but my name's Inez. Now move along, I have other customers." He clutched the $2.13 and stared in disbelief at her.
  • The 3rd guy in line had no compunction about elbowing him away from the "business" portion of the register counter. "Yeah, dude, take your $2.13 and let Inez do her job", his elbow
  • said, with a strange sudden pair of speaking lips. Everyone gasped. "Aw dont be so shocked, that elbows just sayn wut we're all thinking!" ...said his neck. Thus began the horror.
Started
2015-04-11 20:03:31
Finished
2018-03-06 22:32:55

8 Comments

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    EtherBot Mar 06 2018 @ 22:47

    what a twist!
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    LordVacuity Mar 06 2018 @ 23:53

    Wow, that is where we're at, the "every body part for itself" point. Thanks Obama.
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    Woab Mar 07 2018 @ 10:59

    Love the freaky ending, EtherBot.
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    SlimWhitman Mar 07 2018 @ 13:28

    There's elbow spittle on my my keyboard, yeesh!
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    LordVacuity Mar 07 2018 @ 23:36

    ^ Nothing a little elbow grease won't fix.
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    LordVacuity Mar 07 2018 @ 23:37

    The grease must be from all the elbow macaroni the elbow is eating.
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    PurpleProf Mar 08 2018 @ 16:57

    I blame it on the antidepressants Judd started to take when he lost Annie. Side effects! Poor guy...
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    EtherBot Mar 09 2018 @ 21:47

    So its a psychological tragedy story?

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