Tag: family
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Deader Than A Doornail-5)
And just like that, the interrogation began. “You mean you made us crash and die? What a douche!” Elliot asked. Beverly was more infuriated. “W-w-who are you then? Mr Mephistopheles??” Ralph pointed a finger to the ground, meaning stone cold business. “I want answers, guy. Answers! You hear me!?” The quiet old codger took a […]
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Deader Than A Doornail-4)
Bev Jr is busy hating her existance. She had become more alone and sullen than she normally was, which was saying something. She’d just drive (and fast), and question why she was this living zombie and why she didn’t just stay dead. Unlike everyone else in the fam jam, she could not just look past […]
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Deader Than A Doornail-3)
The next morning, Tuesday, I’m meaning, the family stood and sat in the kitchen, eating breakfast and talking loudly. Elliot was very open with his confession. “Why do I have xray vision..?” His dad cut him off, with a big grin. “Aw, son, that’s fantastic news! As I young boy, it was my one wish […]
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Deader Than A Doornail-2)
The Doornail family, Ralph, Beverly, Elliot and Bev Jr, sat quietly around the oval kitchen table. Beverly had prepared a giant breakfast fit for the undead and it was cooling rapidly before them. They looked around at the spread, then up at each other without word and without expression. Bev Jr broke the ice. “Um, […]
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Deader Than A Doornail-1)
As the sun set slowly in the east, the McDougal family sedan soared through air and crashed violently into Caliko Lake, fully emersed by the drink in mere seconds. The man who sent them into their watery graves sat behind the wheel of his old farm truck, in a daze of disbelief, smoke funneling out […]
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Buried Yet Breathing6.
The family all rose and helped clear away the chairs. They also did their best to kick the spare wood at their feet back. Then they all joined arms and began to sing Amazing Grace, while they swayed side to side. Not one person knew all the lyrics so a lot of messing up took […]
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Buried Yet Breathing5.
The next morning.. Several short hours later, the family rooster crowed. Mother hadn’t slept much more than maybe an hour, and her haggardness showed. As she stomped her way to the bathroom to finish powdering her nose, the family cat hid, shuddering by the bookcase. Everyone else was outside in the back forty, mulling about […]
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4grantd.
I’m sitting here at the ol’ computer, getting back into writing “The Single (And Incompetent) Man’s Guide To Eating” cookbook and I’m covered in sweat. Here in southern Alberta we are in the midst of a heat wave, with temperatures above thirty degrees… and my air conditioner is out and I’m cranky. Sure, from age […]