tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58893259470644754752024-02-20T06:38:03.633-08:00Barbara Ivie Green Short StoriesBarbara Ivie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15313184438967166754noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889325947064475475.post-52020429785463309582012-11-11T12:57:00.001-08:002012-11-11T12:57:04.045-08:00The Blind Date<br />
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Grandma sat at the dining table, a shot gun on her lap and her false teeth in the water glass at her elbow. It was a regular Sunday dinner . . . with the exception of the blind date.</div>
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Brooke’s eyes were wide as she looked at her grandma across the table. “What do you mean you invited Betty’s son to dinner?”</div>
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“But you knew Charles was joining us.” Brooke rubbed at her throbbing temple. Why did Grandma have to choose now to be herself?</div>
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“Is that the bell?” Grandma asked innocently.</div>
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Great, just great! Brooke opened the door to both of the men who stood there. One held flowers. The other held a bottle of sparkling water. “Please, won’t you come in?” She stepped aside. “Charles this is Betty’s son—”</div>
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“Jack and I have met,” Charles stated crisply, handing her the bottle as he headed down the hall.</div>
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“Seems I’ve come at a bad time.” Jack remained on the stoop, the flowers still in hand.</div>
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“Not at all.” Brooke smiled awkwardly, trying not to notice the twinkle in his light brown eyes. “We would love it if you’d join us.”</div>
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“For you.” He handed her the bouquet and entered.</div>
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Feeling suddenly out of sorts, she led him to the dining room. “I’ll just go get a vase for these,” she said before she left for the kitchen.</div>
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Grandma eyed the gifts that Brooke had placed on the table. Leaning forward, she grabbed the fake flowers in the arrangement in the center of the table and tossed them over her shoulder, replacing them with the fresh ones. “There . . . I just love it when gifts go together.”</div>
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“That’s my boy!” Grandma smiled. “Don’t let a bit of hot air,” she glanced back at Charles, “stand in your way.”</div>
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“Of course,” Grandma replied. “Shall we eat?”</div>
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“You know my second husband,” Grandma said, making not so idle conversation, leaning forward, and spearing<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4629238245500663558" name="_GoBack"></a> a slice of roast, “thought himself a scholar. Most boring man I’ve ever met.” The shotgun on her lap suddenly exploded, blasting a hole in the wall. Startled, she knocked over her water, which splashed over the other side of the table. . . . Her teeth slid off the edge with the tide.</div>
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“Whoops!” Grandma hollered. “Just patched that up, too, darn-it!”</div>
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“Well!” Charles glared across the table, his trousers soaked.</div>
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“Don’t bother!” he interjected, tossing his napkin to the table. He stomped down the hall, slamming the door in his wake.</div>
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“Well now, you have to admire a man with a sense of humor. My last husband and I laughed together for nearly forty years.” Grandma smiled wistfully. “So how many children are you going to have?”</div>
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“At least a dozen.” Jack winked at Brooke with a wide grin.</div>
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This was written for a 600 word or less competition.</div>
Barbara Ivie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15313184438967166754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889325947064475475.post-5989048769737969842012-11-11T12:55:00.003-08:002012-11-11T12:55:50.473-08:00The Heist<br />
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“A sidecar,” Damien stated the obvious.</div>
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“You comin'?” Damien tossed him the small pith helmet. “Diamond’s not going to steal itself.”</div>
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“Sometimes I wonder if you’re really a boy genius.” Rock cast him a dubious glance as he fastened the chin strap and climbed into the cramped sidecar. The body of it dropped against the tires as his weight settled against the frame.</div>
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“Don’t push it,” Rock warned as Damien pulled back on the throttle. The old relic lurched forward, the back tire groaning in protest. “Couldn’t you have at least found a riding lawnmower?”</div>
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“How much longer will this take?” Rock checked his watch as Damien attached wires to the leads in the control box and clicked a few keys.</div>
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“Quicker than it takes your Viagra to kick in.” Damien snapped his laptop shut. The dim blue light went out leaving them in darkness. “See?”</div>
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“Now I do.” Using hand signals Rock motioned for silence. They easily maneuvered past the glowing lines that crisscrossed the house. Using skills he’d honed in the Special Forces along with some he’d learned elsewhere, they arrived at the study. . . . <i>Boy genius</i> handled the safe.</div>
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“Excellent.” The older woman smiled before turning to the man who stood next to her. “As you’ve seen from the hidden cameras we’ve installed, there are a few glitches in your security system, Senator. With the improvements we’ve recommended, there shouldn’t be any problem with insuring your diamond with Anderson’s firm. She glanced to the other gentlemen who nodded.</div>
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“Anyone up for a hamburger?” Damien suggested just as a red Jaguar rounded the corner, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4629238245500663558" name="_GoBack"></a>stopping in front of them. “Natasha,” he whispered in awe.</div>
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This was written for a 600 word or less competition and I challenged myself to see how many twists I could create in that short span. . . . I only managed two. Maybe next time. :O)</div>
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Our first experience with our little girl and the movie theater ended halfway through the film. We’d already spilled the popcorn and candy, but when the ring our little darling had worn slipped from her finger, Mommy soon found herself crawling, cellphone light in hand, through the sticky stuff that lives under the seats.</div>
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Let me tell you that, just as someone’s trash might be someone else’s treasure, someone’s dream might be a two year old’s nightmare. We left the theater pronto, but not before the short trip to the bathroom rivaled that of the state of the art sound system. Having lost the previously mentioned ring in the paper towel used to dry our hands, Mommy was dumpster diving while her little one sang her own rendition of . . . woe to me, who once had a ring and a dream. . . . We appeared at the door to the ladies’ room just as my husband was considering calling 911. </div>
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Being people who obviously forget way too soon, we tried our luck once again, just a few short months later. This time armed with popcorn, drinks, candy, and 3-D glasses, we munched happily through the hour’s worth of trailers. Having retained our glasses, I might add, through countless warnings from the eyeglass police not to lose them, we proudly sat wearing them, oohing and aahing at the screen as the little race car went around the track.</div>
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This is where I get smart and put the real cool black military 1950’s styled glasses in my shirt pocket, so that nothing happens to them, and the eyeglass police will be happy. Are you starting to sense something here??? I leaned over to assist in the process and <i>bingo</i> the glasses slid from my pocket into the potty, and the automatic flushing mechanism did the rest.</div>
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After washing our hands . . . in my case scrubbing, I gave her the pair of glasses off my head like they were hers all the time. <i>Slick!</i> I’m thinking as we return to tell the eyeglass police we need another pair. I did consider watching the rest of the movie without the super duper 3-D glasses, but the screen upon my return was so blurred I figured I really had to confess. Daddy just looked at me with not even an “I told you so” as he gifted me his own pair and went in search of another. </div>
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The movie yielded three more potty trips, where I willingly gave the glasses to the <i>keeper of eyeware</i>, and we even made it up until the point where the evil lemon makes his nefarious plan known. ‘Wha-ha-ha- he-ha!” We were outta there like we had a dream chasing us after that, I tell you. </div>
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“Mighty strange they are too,” he says in regards to the silvery disk that he has seen floating above the trees on some evenings. “I don’t much mind them,” he continued speaking of the lights, “or the little green men.” It is, however, quite disconcerting when that bossy cow Bessie demands oats at every feeding. And when he tries to contain the herd, she frequently orchestrates a rebellion. “It’s bad enough with the missus,” says the beleaguered farmer. “But there is no peace to be had now that cows fly, and I can only hope that they’ll come home.”</div>
Barbara Ivie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15313184438967166754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889325947064475475.post-59811448832980768192012-11-11T12:50:00.001-08:002012-11-11T12:50:55.497-08:00The iPhone...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you've ever navigated the threads at Amazon you'll appreciate this ancedote. :O)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I’ve discovered that I may not be in complete control of my iPhone. It takes me to places unknown. I’m not sure if it’s me or if the small device has developed its own interests.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4629238245500663558" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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As if that weren’t enough, it has shunted me off to cyberspace on several occasions. The little instigator even popped me into another thread altogether once. Was this Kansas? I wondered as I read . . . <i>Alien blood and guts were flowing,</i> as I back peddled to safety.</div>
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My iPhone must have made friends there, however, because I keep getting messages that no matter how many times I go in and stop tracking, it will not. I’m beginning to suspect that my e-mail is now in cahoots with this small hand held device. I tell you, it’s scary. My inbox looks like Steven King lives there.</div>
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And on occasion, my laptop joins in this fracas, distorting my cleverly placed dot, dot, dots . . . with, iK, when I paste my documents. I ask you, would you put up with this?</div>
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I say, if you’re going to take the words out of my mouth, at least do it with some eloquence!</div>
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