Birthday Stories

New Beginnings. This, is the story of a girl, who became a women. In this story is three things: light and darkness, heaven and the devil himself, and demons and magic . It is about the coming of age of Cheryl, and how she reaches, into her sole, and discovers real life cherubs, fluttering in her thoughts. Cherubs, and shewill never be thsame, again
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Anyway, that was for the book I am writing about Heather.
SO, HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER!!! Here's to you performing beautifully well in your presentation today you're giving in the cafeteria. Er, I mean, in your grad school seminars.

I think the time has come again for ALL of us to do something for Heather on her birthday.
Here's your mission:

Write a brief excerpt from the story YOU would write about Heather.
Make it poetic, charming, daring suspenseful, exciting, or just stupid. Ok? Here goes mine!

Sipping on soda in Del Taco one afternoon, Heather was quietly preparing for the presentation she had to give for one of her classes the next day. Walt Whitman quotes chiming through her thoughts, she hardly noticed Ian McKellan, dressed in full Gandalf garb, sitting down at the table just behind her, his staff leaning carefully against the plastic finish of the bright green seats. Heather concentrated on her work was digging at a veggie works burrito with a fork. Gandalf behind her had just gotten his fries, and began making small hobbit houses out of the sauce packets, unwrapping his burrito. Gandalf looked down at his meal, content and peacefully ready to begin eating.
Mikie walks in, his teeth and conversation chattering at the speed of a talking doll wired with the wrong batteries.
"Hi Mikie"
"Hi heATHER gues WhAT Candice THIS and candice THAT and LA THIS and auditions that and joey and stan and stoey and monkey poop what are you doing later why not when" he drinks some soda, and continues.

Meanwhile mom, dad, Jarom, Bella and Stormy show up. Mom is pushing a shopping cart filled with Jarom, Bella and toys! The wheels screeching around the bends of Chevron and mom comes at high speeds into the Del Taco eatery. Dad, at 7 feet tall, walks with strut and a wild smile, on his telephone to an AT&T operator "THANK YOU what was your name again Miss? Oh thank you Deborah, and what was your middle name? Ah thank our Deborah Sarah..." etc. Stormy comes in behind dad, also 7 feet tall and walking on his hind legs, speaking clear english with a brittish accent. The two towering males turn the corner inside Chevron to join the little group of family.
Before long, the talk with Heather and the gang has erupted into a full on Ultimate Fighting Championship brawl, with Stormy and Bella fighting in the ring as all the family cheers them on. Matt and Amy have showed up, as well as Adie and Art, and Stoey and Jan who have somehow merged their bodies into one strange-looking human. Bella does a roundhouse kick and brings Stormy to the ground. Then she leaps high up into the aid and lands on his belly with such force that it knocks the wind out of him, and he is beaten. The family CHEERS!

Suddenly bolts of lightning struck all around, and the restaurant went pitch black. Everybody goes silent.

In the dark nothing can be heard but the sounds of people breathing. stormy meows. Then a soft-spoken old man's voice touches the air, quiet, precise, and distinctly brittish,

"Excuse me, but no one gives a f*ck about your family"

And as the lights come back up, Gandalf's hunched back, tall hat and walking stick can be seen outside the windows of Del Taco, as he makes way to a parked Ford Escort next to the propane tanks.

The End


I know my past and present are all screwed up. I have some editing to do.