“You’re home. Dinner’s on the counter. The kids have been a nightmare.”
His eyes move past me, his keys slide across the cold granite. He finds a plate, and walks to his office. The screen’s glow illuminates the man I once knew, now silent.
“Goodbye, then.”
I close the door.
Delancey Stewart is a fiction writer living in Southern Maryland. When no indulging her imagination, she works for the man as a tech writer and tends two small boys who, her husband assures her, are hers. Find her at http://delanceystewart.wordpress.com.
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Posted by Tim at 3:00 am on January 11th, 2013.
Categories: Guest Writers, Touching. Tags: change, Delancey Stewart, marriage, sad, separation.
When he wanted to stay in bed, he imitated a cozy blanket.
When he wanted to keep playing outside, he made himself look like a tree.
When he didn’t want to eat his broccoli, he blended into his chair.
Dad was usually fooled, but Mom could see right through it.
This story was based on a title suggested by @Vigafray.
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Posted by Tim at 8:20 am on April 5th, 2011.
Categories: Amusing, Touching. Tags: change, child, shapeshift, sleep, trick, tricking your parents, vegetables.
Dad was jolted awake and screamed. Then he screamed again, but differently.
Mom ran in. Dad lay face-down, groaning.
Little Samantha stood beside him, holding a sparking wire.
Dad raised his head, and Mom saw… a toddler’s face?
“Samantha, what did you do?!”
“I electrocuted him,” she grinned.
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Posted by Tim at 8:35 am on April 1st, 2011.
Categories: Amusing, Puns and Wordplay. Tags: change, cute, electrocute, magic, man, pun, toddler, transform.
“Darling Cynthia, please give me just one more chance!”
“Why should I settle for an imperfect suitor?” sniffed Cynthia. “You answered a question wrong!”
“I’ll change my answer! I’ll change anything! Just tell me how!”
Cynthia considered. “Fine, one more chance. After all, I am the fairest of them all.”
This story is based on a title suggested by @Sir_Oddington.
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Posted by Tim at 7:41 am on March 2nd, 2011.
Categories: Amusing, Puns and Wordplay. Tags: answer, beauty, change, choice, fair, fairest, love, maiden, perfect, pun, quiz, Sylvia, unfair.
Seven-year-old Kyle sold strawberries on Saturdays. He got exactly six customers every hour; he counted them.
Then one Saturday, between one o’clock PM and two o’clock PM, he had nine customers.
Three of them didn’t buy anything, though. “The more things change,” Kyle sighed, “the more they stay the same.”
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Posted by Tim at 1:02 pm on July 12th, 2009.
Categories: Amusing, Touching. Tags: change, Count, customers, Ecclesiastes, nothing new under the sun, same, strawberries.
