(Robin, at Your Daily Dose, is responsible for this change. Check her blog out!)
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And, now your first A To Z 250 story:
Some Zombie Stories,
5
Gimel sighed, and said “Let me explain again.” Still, the children did not stop screaming
and he wondered what had ever possessed him to take a job as a bus driver. He put his saggy, withered face into his bony
hands and felt one of his teeth pop out.
Some days it was not worth getting out of the graveyard.
“Kids,” he tried again, as the screams seemed to go into a
lull. That set them off all over, and
now people in their yards were starting to look. He held up a hand, trying to motion them to
silence.
“You’re going to eat our brains!” one of the little girls
screamed and at that, one of the larger boys, probably a fifth grader, took his
hockey stick – were those even allowed on the bus? – and began brandishing it
at him, yelling at Gimel to stay away.
Twenty-two hundred
years of this, he thought to himself and then saw that the mothers had
arrived from their houses, demanding to know what’s going on here and some of them shrieking in horror at him
while others began calling 9-1-1 on their cell phones.
Gimel wondered if he should just put the bus in drive and
roll away, take the bus as far as it would go and then shamble his way to some
other attempt at life He regretted, not for
the last time, not taking that job as a dishwasher at the pub near the
graveyard.
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How is this a story about C, today's letter? Originally, C and G were the same letter, and went by the name Gimel.
Read more 250=1 stories by clicking here to get a list of all of them. Or, for the brave/people who have time, check out the C installment of my other ongoing story, below.
3 comments:
I think having a zombie drive a bus would be a bad idea. What if his foot broke off as he was trying to press on the brake.
Hahaha to Andrew's comment.
This is the only time that I have felt sympathetic to a zombie. Kudos.
I am pleased that you listened to my suggestion for a shorter A to Z. 250 words is perfect. And hard. I feel your pain. I have a terrible time keeping it short on my blog.
I always listen to good suggestions.
Andrew: Yet another reason Gimel should've gone with dishwasher.
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