Here, in exactly 100 words, is a follow up to Uncle Albert's Desk.
I wanted to explore the desk further, but had no unused words.
Weird Cubby Holes
Marci decided that such a bulky piece of furniture needed to do more than just take up space. The cubby holes behind the roll top were perfect for storing her transistor radio, tape player, and the watch Rob gave her.
Later, she replaced the batteries in the radio and tape player, but neither ever ran again. She took the watch to a repair shop and paid more than the original purchase price for a new mechanism. But afterward it always ran unpredictably either fast or slow.
“It’s weird,” she told her friend Amy, “they worked when I put them away.”
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Reduced to a Haiku
Why did that old desk
Why did that old desk
Cast aberrations on those
Mechanical things?
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As a six word story
What
Secrets does
That desk hold?
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Marci's thread
I love the way this piece is fairly straightforward but then the cheeky glint in its eye at the end as the desk misbehaves....why? Summed up perfectly with the final six words...
ReplyDeleteI loved this - it sounds a bit Steven King-ish. Wonder where that old desk came from in the very first place.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea that there is more to this desk than meets the eye. :)
ReplyDeleteNice. Straightforward with a twinkle. I don't find the desk necessarily malevolent, merely mischievous!
ReplyDeleteHa, how original, a desk with a sabotage in mind. That was a good idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and commenting.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the desk itself that has these effects, but the presence of the other contents, as described in the earlier piece, Uncle Albert's desk, linked in the post.
Cheers!
JzB
What a great take on the prompt.
ReplyDeleteOoh time travel, very interesting!
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