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A Prank
Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1978)A Prank
“Do you believe that a prank can ruin a life?” Ketil inquired of his companions as they walked down the shadowed corridor of the House of Lost Dreams.
“Apologies fer hedgin’ on yer query, old currant bun, but I’ve noticed that this portion of the old Dream Drum continually looks very much the same, although what it branches off to varies in its rotten scariness,” Little John observed as he took a chomp from a rotten hunk of haunch.
“Pranks are an unfamiliar concept to me,” Yitzy imparted telepathically. The gigantic creature held a lantern in one great claw as he slid silently along the floor of the malevolent structure. “My race never engaged in frivolity. I do not mind Robin’s tendency to do so. Do you fellows recall the time when he said: ‘Yitzy, old boy, I’m gonna bury you!’ in a grumbling voice, and as I was wondering what I had done to inspire his wrath, he presented me with a bowl of berries.”
“This is not a prank, Yitzy, it is a jest,” Ketil countered. “While it is true that some pranks are harmless, such as short-sheeting a bed or putting what is knowed as a whoopie cushion on someone’s seat so it sounds as if they has farted loudly, I has finded in my time that many pranks is cruel in their intent and some has dire consequences that lasts a lifetime and beyond. Such a prank was depicted in the story Carrie, which was writed by the author Stephen King.”
“Oi, there was this cinema in Crouch End that used ter have a late showing of movies that had been out fer a spell,” Little John revealed. “Me and Rob went and saw Carrie there one night after we found ten quid just layin’ about on the ground.”
“Did you sneak in your own entrails for a snack, or did you purchase popcorn?” the ghost quipped.
“Well, yer see, the proprietor was one of them fish folk, an’ he was sympathetic ter the dietary needs of ghoul-kind,” Little John said. “Seemed ter ‘ave a limitless supply of molderin’ meat-stuffs in ‘is larder, an’ ‘e gave us a rusty bucketful of stale popcorn smothered in rancid butter and ‘uman fat. Rob and me had a foine time watchin’ the film, but we did feel right sad fer the young twist 'n' twirl what ‘ad a bucket of pig blood poured over ‘er dome by them arseholes who didn’t have nothin’ better to do than behave shite ter a poor lass what had a rough lot in life already.”
“Yah, this is the sort of prank of which I mean,” Ketil acknowledged. “Now, as so often is the case in a story such as Carrie, the arseholes what fucked with her paid for their shite behavior. But the accounting team of the Cosmos does not work so smooth in the real world. There was fuckers what near to got me killed all for a stupid joke because they do not like a fellow who is strange, especially when they is jealous that his father is holded in high regard for his position. I shall tell you of this incident, beginning with a poem which I shall now recite to you.”
cruel jest the match
a spark that leaves life in ruin
joke far from funny
AcknowledgmentsThis chapter was Written using the October Spooky Writing Challenge prompts from The Writers Handbook.
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November 4, 2020
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Readers Roost: Impeachment Book Promo, Review, and Giveaway
Watching the election results is giving me fits.
So, what am I doing instead?
Reading very realistic political fiction.
I'm beginning to question my sanity.
However, I cannot question the quality of this book.
If you are interested in politics and the dirty dealings that come with it, you may enjoy this story too.
November 3, 2020
IWSG 4 November 2020: I Write Because Nobody Listens
Aaaaaand the IWSG Question 'o' the Month is...
Albert Camus once said, “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Flannery O’Conner said, “I write to discover what I know.” Authors across time and distance have had many reasons to write. Why do you write what you write?
The real, bare-bones truth of why I write is because I don't know how to do anything else and because I probably would have offed myself long ago if I didn't write. So I write to make the wrong seem right even if nothing can ever really be right. I write because, in my literary world, I can make sense of things that will never make sense. Also because in my literary world:
I wrote this post ahead of time. I'm an American citizen, so I'm hoping that at the point when this post publishes, we'll be on our way to ousting the rotting pumpkin-head from the White House. Gee, whoever could have predicted that electing a malignant narcissist reality TV star with manure for brains could have turned out so badly? Can we not do that again?
I always said that if people wanted a reality TV star president with a fake tan, they should have written in Snooki. She wouldn't have been a good president either, but at least she wasn't hateful and rotten to the core.
All that aside, here is what I have been doing and the things I will be changing, because I know you all sit around waiting with bated breath for these posts, thinking to yourselves "what is Cie up to this time?"
Or something like that.
This year has been something of a nuclear disaster. I've been trying to get on disability. The car accident of which I speak is unrelated to my reasons for getting on disability, which have been going on for a lot longer.
I was in a car accident--no injuries except to the car. I was not at fault. Because it's an older car, the insurance company was trying to total it rather than pay for the bodywork. They agreed to cut me a check rather than paying for the repairs directly. This was a good thing because as it turned out, the insides of my tires were completely worn and I needed four new tires to the tune of $850.
This whole mess has been stressful. But a lot of the stress I incur is because I've never learned how to say "no." I've always been pathologically terrified of disappointing people. However, it is impossible to be all things to everyone, and both my work and my mental state suffer when I overload myself. I am bad about taking breaks, and I can't recall the last time I had a day off.
I have three main blog hops that I do weekly.MRFW Book Hookshttp://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com/
Snippet Sundayhttp://www.facebook.com/groups/snippetsunday
Weekend Writing Warriorshttp://wewriwa.blogspot.com/
I have one blog hop that I do monthly:MFRW Steam http://mfrwsteam.blogspot.com/
I have decided that on MFRW Steam week, I am not going to participate in the regular MFRW hop. I like to try and visit every participant and share their work on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or wherever their share buttons lead. It's overwhelming when I try to do both the regular MFRW hop and the Steam hop in the same week.
I've also taken on too much recently when it comes to doing book reviews and that needs to stop because the quality of my work has suffered.
I can easily do cover reveals, book blitzes, and guest posts for the asking over at Readers Roost (http://ornerybookemporium.blogspot.com). The book tour sites that I work with send the HTML all ready to paste into a post, and I just have to schedule it and share it. It really doesn't cut into my regular work.
Reviews are another story because I have to, you know, read the book.
My main source of income is the book reviews that I do for Online Book Club (http://www.onlinebookclub.org) so I have to prioritize them. At this point, except for children's books and cookbooks, it's too much for me to take on outside reviews. But I'm more than happy to do cover reveals and promo posts for the asking.
I've also discovered that I greatly prefer proofreading to beta reading, so I removed the beta reading option from my literary services page. There are better beta readers than me out there, and I'm not embarrassed to admit it.
Lastly, I've been doing a vlog on LBRY. This is something I thought that I'd never do because I hate the sound of my voice. In all honesty, I never look at the stuff I record, I don't edit it, because I would want to jump out a window if I tried. I just put it out there. My vlog channel is auntciesattic on lbry.tv I read poetry and blather, if for some reason that interests you.
I was tired when I wrote this. I need to go inject my levemir so I don't fall asleep and then wake up at 2 AM realizing I didn't inject it.
Diabetes is fuuuuun.
Nah, I'm just fooling with ya. It sucks ass.
Until next IWSG--or sooner! Come back and visit. There's always lots of crazy stuff going on here.
~The Ornery Old Bat Has Spoken~
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