Unwelcome Homecoming_Under the sea_Ribcage_A Simple Conversation
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Unwelcome Homecoming
Unwelcome HomecomingJack Jones stood at the small service window of the police department’s Staff Office. He had come to hand in his police identity badge. After a thirty-year career in which he had achieved the rank of a commissioned officer, they had designated a cadet to receive him. A cadet, for f**** sake! “Where’s your boss? Tell him I wish to speak with him.” Jack needed to call on his willpower not to take out his frustration on the teenager. “He’s busy and not seeing anyone.” “I’m here to surrender my I.D. You can inform Superintendent Cooper that if he wants my card, he will find it...
Under the sea
Under the sea. Under the sea. Life is better down where it’s wetter, take it from me.The doll sang in a high weedy tone. Thinner and less body than a real voice. The voice sounded like it was under water, which seemed appropriate, given the doll.She was a foot and a half tall, long red hair in two braids, each about six inches long. She had a purple top and a bright green mermaid tail that helped her stand upright. She had bulbous green eyes that sparkled. As she sang, the tail went translucent and flashed and strobed in time with the tune.I love playing under the sea, she tittered.Amanda kept...
Ribcage
Every morning since he had discovered them, he had returned to Big Black Trunk and lifted the flap of bark he had found the grubs living under. They were the big, fat white ones www.onedoor.ccwhich wriggled when he picked them up and popped when he bit into them. His favourites. They were a rare treat and he hadn’t expected them to last long, so he wasn’t surprised when he got there and found that the birds had had the entire community.Never mind. What was it the Gammer used to say? If the tide comes in, it always goes out again? He didn't know what a tide was, having never seen the ocean, but the expressio...
A Simple Conversation
(TW: Mentions substance abuse, references to suicidal depression, references the best mac and cheese you’ll ever have, and potentially offensive to Christians) …Holy crap, this place sells lobster bisque for five dollars? …Is that good or bad? …Hope they like the tea I ordered. …Hey! Have a seat! How are you; how’s the move?! Great! Awesome…Do you like tea? You do!? That’s nice, I’m glad I got that right. Thanks for comin’, by the way. Sorry I called you at the last minute and everything, but…I wasn’t ready yet…to…to talk about that thing I said while drunk. I mean, shit, I shouldn’t have had ...