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Submitted to Contest #67
The Treasure of Mermaid Island It was a steaming hot day on the Pacific Ocean. The wind was dull, listless and the pirate ship, The Mermaid’s Quest was reeling. The sea salt penetrated the senses of taste and smell. A skeleton crew manned it through the doldrums, while the captain and most of the crew were below trying to stay cool. In the far distance, Bootleg, sitting in the crow’s nest saw it. “Call the Captain, I’ve spotted Mermaid Island.” One of the deck hands ran off nearly breaking ...
Submitted to Contest #66
The Photographer Richard Maynard was an executive for a very large conglomerate. He was second in command to the president/CEO. Richard had worked up from the mail room through the ranks of the company. He had a corner office with a spectacular view, a full-time secretary, plus two more part-timers if needed, a company car that was taken out once a month, washed and waxed, there were stock options and he golfed at least once a week. Of course, the green fees and cart and lunch were on the companies tab. But,...
Submitted to Contest #65
Contacting Johnny ‘Fast Fingers’ Ferguson Alvin Lee Bridgewater looked at his friend Stevie Ray Howe with a gambler’s grin. “Well, you gonna be chicken?” Stevie Ray looked up at his friend and gritted through his teeth. “Yeah, let’s do it.” “If we stick to the plan we should be fine.” Stevie Ray nodded his head. “I gotta go home and get ready.” “Yeah, sounds like a plan.” They slapped palms hard and then left. “I can’t believe he agreed to spend the night in the graveyard where Johnny ‘Fast Fingers’ Ferguson is buried.”&...
John Lupin The neighbours watched quietly and with unbroken attention as not one, but three large moving trucks had pulled into the old Mansell place. Donna Harrison watched with the excitement of a child ogling her first Santa Claus parade. “Mommy what are you doing?” She turned around and hissed at her daughter Hayley. “Don’t you have anything better to do than annoy me right now?” “Can me and Frankie play video games?” “Yes, just go ahead and play video games.” She turned and ran away with excitement and almost ran ...
Bella’s First Halloween Every day, George Marchand watched the Asian mother with her little girl. They played in the garden or went for a walk. The little girl, Bella, was almost three. One day, there had been a pleasant exchange as he walked into town and came across the pair. The summer ended and the little girl still too young to go to school went to a babysitter every day while her mother went to work. He would see them arrive home together as a man from the mother’s work drove them to their place. The fal...
Submitted to Contest #64
Weird Family The Murtag’s waited for Ellen’s fiancé to show up. Theresa Murtag, the family matriarch looked nervously out the window. “I want everyone on their best behaviour. I don’t want anyone to act up and above all no one says anything until it is too late. Do we understand each other?” Hank Murtag, the family patriarch, nodded his head. Jenny Murtag, the second oldest daughter looked at her mother and acknowledged her request. Al Murtag looked at his mother and smiled. “He’s gonna be really surprised.” “Yes,...
Submitted to Contest #63
The True Believer “By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire.” This probably doesn’t sound right to you, so I guess I should start at the beginning. It was a brilliant fall day and the colours on the tree were changing already. I made a mental note to suggest to go and see them this weekend before the football game started. There was a certain excitement in the air. It was a few weeks before Halloween and the kids were already very thrilled. They had picked out their costumes a l...
Apple Picking With Bart The teacher had assigned pairs of students to go apple picking. They weren’t allowed to select their own partners. Heather Gallant knew that she would get stuck with Bart O’Hara. She just knew it and sure enough that’s what happened. “I can’t believe that I got stuck with that loser.” She was complaining to her best friend Michelle Darnell who just smirked. She had landed the most popular boy in class, Derek Vance. “Well, just ditch him.” “Oh, right, ditch the guy that has a disability. &...
Goin’ South It is getting cold out here. That rain yesterday didn’t help and luckily my nest was nice and warm. But, I can feel it; it is time to go south. The voyage will begin tomorrow. It is a long trek full of perils and danger. There are guns and wires and planes. There is also the chance of getting caught in bad weather. There are hurricanes and they are the worse. You can tell when one is coming because the humans go crazy. Right now, I am re...
The Fall Project The previous fall, Gladys Southers had missed out because she had fallen and broken a hip. This meant, missing out on Halloween. Out of all the holidays, she loved the creepy day the best. She remembered as a young girl, the excitement of picking out a costume and running up and down the streets gathering a pillow case full of candy. As an adult, she just loved handing out candy to all the little trick or treaters. The costumes and cuteness was something that she couldn’t ge...
Submitted to Contest #62
An Explosion in Time Stumpville or ‘Dumpville’ as twelve-year old Warren Douglas called it was a boring burg. There wasn’t much ever going on and everyone was square, backwards and not very interesting. He had lived in the small town his whole life and screamed for a change of scenery. “Someday, I am going to get out of this one-horse buggy loser stink hole.” His parents had been born and raised in Stumpville and they were both heavily involved in all town activities. Whe...
Submitted to Contest #61
That Smell Howard Small waited for the rumbling bus as it chugged down the street. It reminded the octogenarian of himself, slow, steady and making all kinds of noise. The vehicle eased onto the stop and the big doors opened. It took some effort, but he managed to climb the steps and waved his pass. He didn’t have to because the driver was very familiar with him. It was Wednesday, around three-thirty and Harold was going grocery shopping. This was a weekly ritual. He shuffled along and there didn’t seem to be an...
Submitted to Contest #60
A Slab of Rock Okay, so the Polar caps melted and the world flooded out like they had predicted. Some people had boats and they were okay in that respect, but the only food available was fish and birds. Of course, there were alliances formed, more like gangs if you want. In that crazy, insane period, the human race was trying to figure out how it was going to keep alive. The thing was there really was no warning. Sure, the scientists or authorities or whoever you want to say had warned us about it, but the rush of wat...
Send in the Clowns Hello, my name is Graham. I am writing this down for future generations because the history books are going to be really warped and maybe even unbelievable. It all started with this virus that wouldn’t go away. The authorities tried everything and the concentrated effort was tremendous, but in the end failure was the inevitable result. So they took all the humans that were left — less than a ten thousand -— and they were put in isolation. While this was going on, a d...
Logan and the Zombie Killers Logan ran as fast as he could without looking over his shoulder. The fence was maybe five hundred feet away. He could hear them and feel their disease and vacant stares. They were supposed to be slow, but these zombies had adjusted their speed and were moving too quickly. His plan was simple: he was going to hop the fence, something the zombies weren’t able to do and then go from there. It would have worked out perfectly except for the two hun...
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