Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Delusional Doom Blogfest

Today is the Delusional Doom Blogfest hosted by the Watery Tart!

In honor of the Ides of March when Julius Caesar met his doom, the Watery Tart has asked that for this blogfest we write a little something that predicts someone's death, plots a murder, or write an obituary for yourself or someone else.

Of course, as has become my obsession recently, at least where blogfests are concerned, I wrote another episode of Happy Acres. It follows immediately from yesterday's Broken Heart Blogfest entry.

It's kind of long (about 650), but at least I kept it under 1000 words!

Hope you enjoy!

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“I’m going to kill that stupid woman,” I said, pounding the table in the Happy Acres day room by way of emphasizing my desire to crush her head to a bloody pulp.

“Zimbabwe,” Bill muttered from his usual chair in the corner where he sat with his puppet alter-ego T-Bone. The drug-like after effects of visitor’s day had worn off and everyone was back to their mental illness baselines.

“What did she do this time?” Tessa asked, madly scribbling away at a New Idea with a purple marker across the table from me.

“She knew we’d all be out here with our visitors, so she did a room search while we were distracted,” I said, pounding the table again for emphasis. Tessa actually glared at me. She suffered from post-visitor letdown too.

“You know,” Artie said, “it’s fully within staff jurisdiction to do room searches. I read the rules.”

“Mr. Artie,” Mia chimed in from a spot on the floor where she and the zombies poured over a pile of magazines Mama Mia had brought for them. “I would suggest you not poke the bear when it’s angries. This is what we call a bad idea.”

Artie’s brows came together in genuine confusion. I tried to forgive him because he still didn't understand us all. He hadn't yet found his place in the Happy Acres family.

“I don’t understand,” he said.

“Em is moody,” Simon said from his perch on the couch.

“You should talk,” I growled at him.

“Did she take anything valuable?” Simon asked, feigning interest. But I knew he was only concerned about his own contraband inventory.

“Only the apples I’d hidden under my dirty laundry, a ballpoint, and the scarf Mama Mia brought me last month.”

“You hide fruit with you dirty laundry?” Artie asked, a troubled grimace on his face.

“Usually Cratchit skipsies the dirty undies,” Mia said. “They can be kind of yucky, if you know what I mean.”

“She must still be mad at you for the last call-button-in-the-coma-patients’ room incident,” Tessa offered.

“Why would she take a ballpoint?” Artie asked.

From his corner, Bill mimed T-Bone using a ballpoint to stab him in the neck. His eyes bugged large, and he spasmed in his chair as his imaginary blood drained from his jugular.

“Oh,” Artie said.

“I’d like to find that stash of confiscated ballpoints in her desk and turn her into an inky pin cushion,” I said through gritted teeth.

“I’m in,” Simon said.

“Me too,” Tessa said.

“Me and the zombies would totes abandon our nonviolence policy for that fun stabby party,” Mia said.

“Does that mean she confiscated my pen and pencil set?” Artie asked. I thought he was going to be sick.

“Zimbabwe,” Bill said, resignation in his voice.

“Those were a gift from my wife,” Artie said, his eyes narrowing and the muscles in his jaw tightening like springs.

He stood, his hands fisting at his sides. All eyes went to Artie, the now-ticking time bomb.

“Hey, Artie, man,” I said. “Look, as much as I really, really want to go all voodoo doll on Nurse Cratchit, let’s just come up with another plan, okay?”

Artie turned his gaze on me and I made a mental note not to cross him. “Like what?” he asked.

“Well, I have just as much fun tricking her and making her look like an idiot. So let’s maybe plan a midnight raid on her office or something, okay?”

Mia clapped her hands and giggled. “Oh, goodies. Em is super good at sneaky covert ops. It’s always tons of fun.”

Tessa looked up from her project, a little smile forming on her lips. “That’s just what we need,” she said. “I’ll bring the glitter sprinkles.”

I’d explain later that glitter sprinkles would only implicate us. Not that Cratchit wouldn't know it was us, anyway.

Artie’s jaw relaxed a little and he took his seat again. “Are you sure I’ll get my pen and pencil set back?” he asked.

I could feel the sly smile form on my lips, “Oh, trust me, Artie. You’ll get that and more. She’ll never know what hit her.”

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Now go read the rest of them. I know I'm heading there right now. Can't wait to read more murder plotting....

21 comments:

Unknown said...

LOL.

What, no glitter sprinkles???

*frowns*

OK but I can bring my pink sparkly flashlight, right?

RosieC said...

I'm with Tessa. I think the glitter sprinkles are a MUST!

LOL. This was great. Thanks! :)

Mara Nash said...

okay, glitter sprinkles and a sparkly flashlight. I think the luck of the irish blogfest will see the crew stealing back their apples and pens, so stay tuned....

alberta ross said...

def. glitter sprinkles and sparky flashlight - great

Jen said...

I LOVE this!!

PS: I'm in :D

Michael Di Gesu said...

Glittery sprinkles and sparkly flashlight all the way...

Well done!

Michael

Southpaw said...

The glitter sparkles are a big hit. I liked that part too.

Jan Morrison said...

delish! I want more...
Jan Morrison

Helena said...

Speaking as one who is pretty much "back to their mental illness baselines," I really enjoyed this. Especially the sparklies.

Mara Nash said...

I think it's hysterical how everyone loves the sparklies, but completely ignores the murdering pen stabbing plot. lol.

Roland D. Yeomans said...

I rather liked the stabbing pen mention. It sounds like the evil nurse deserves to have a pain in the neck from being one for so long! Roland

N. R. Williams said...

I have a picture of sparkly pens in multiple colors jutting from the neck of that hospital worker. LOL
Nancy
N. R. Williams, The Treasures of Carmelidrium, Special .99 through April 30

dolorah said...

Damn Mara; I'm so enjoying this story. I hope you don't write the Novel instead, cuz then we couldn't follow it here.

I love these characters - they're so fun :)

......dhole

Laura said...

What about a pink sparkly trowel to for the burial. Loved the story... fab piece of writing
Lx

M Pax said...

I loved the first line and the fruit hidden in the laundry. Icky but funny.

Hart Johnson said...

Oh, I love your mad house! Crazy people can be so entertaining! Very amusing story! I love it!

Unknown said...

For some reason, it made me think of Session 9. Wonderful movie where they talk a bit about the lobotomy. What a horrible existence to live, after the brain is dead and the body just maintains. To go down with a sparkly pen would be horrible :P Great little story.

Draven Ames
http://dravenames.blogspot.com/

Mary@GigglesandGuns said...

This is great evil. I'd so love to be there.

LTM said...

nurse Cratchit's going down... :D good stuff~

Unknown said...

I want to know what happens next.. more...

Mia Hayson said...

Hahahahaaaaa. These entries always make me smile. Also I swear I never say stuff like "stabby" on la internetz even though I say it all the time OUT LOUD. For serious.

I'd love to know what happens! Buuuut, hopefully the next linky I click on will reveal all.