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He walked into the room like someone who

  • He walked into the room like someone who had done that kind of thing before.

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  • This was of course, a fatal mistake. Having had no prior experience with extreme varsity knitting, he found himself suddenly caught in a crossfire of razor sharp needles and

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  • plush doorstops.Knitting needles in hand, he hunkered down behind a stack of Christmas doilies and got to work on his newest opus. Crazed grandmothers wrapped in hand-knit

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  • biking shorts danced like sugar plums in his head. He drank 15 5 hour energy drinks. He was knitting so fast smoke curled from the needles and

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  • Martha Mae, who was watching through binoculars from her yarn shop across the street, felt sure that he must've sold his soul to the devil. She picked up the phone and

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  • called Creole Dave from the Voodoo Shop two doors down, to come shoo the bad juju from the area, starting with guy maniacally knitting across the street.Dave brought a tooloolou

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  • voodoo doll out & began to unravel its sweater.The guy hesitated,counted his stitches,consulted his pattern & swore. He packed his bags & returned to Banff. Creole Dave's voodoo

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  • had once again kept the secrets of the bayou away from nosy Canucks. They would always show up and politely ask for his witch doctor secrets. Dave put a whammy on hockey.

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  • That was witchdoctor code for adding the lime to the coconut, a standard remedy in cases of hyenas, frosts, and nosebleeds. Dave was no amateur but the sorry mess on his porch made

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  • the hyenas placid for miles around, which was lucky for the hyena-lion accords. The hyenas agreed to stop laughing at the lions' bad manecuts. Peace on spaghetti serengetti.

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2 Comments

  1. SlimWhitman Jun 15 2012 @ 17:57

    I like how the story changes viewpoint in the middle. Hey my sweater has three arms and no neck hole. Sh*t FoldingStory distracted me. Bad juju!

  2. BlastedHeath Jun 21 2012 @ 20:28

    Thanks to those who voted for mine, and I'm not fishing for more votes. At the time, something like the winning entries of the year's Bulwer-Lytton contest were abroad, and that was my attempt in response. ;-)

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