New Resident

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The New Resident
By Teek
September 2022
475 words long

 

I looked around at the assembled members. Nosey Nancy might be a problem, but I think I can keep her under control. Lucy is wearing her cat ear head band. It looks so cute, but I can focus and not be distracted by such things. Mary was wearing a really adorable outfit, oh how she always has the best outfits. I need to focus. Taking a deep breath, I looked around at everyone.

“Okay everyone,” I waited for them all to stop talking and look up at me. “We have a problem. A new person has moved in and taken over our space. This can not be tolerated. They are noisy at all hours of the day. If not disrupting everything, they are sleeping and we are told to be quiet. This situation is not acceptable.”

There were nods of agreement from all of the assembled members.

“What are we going to do about it?”

Lucy promptly stated, “Send them back to where they came from.”

I let out a big sigh, “I recommended that, but it was rejected. Any other suggestions.”

“I couldn’t even get close to them yesterday,” Nancy complained. “I just don’t see why I can’t just continue as things were before. They are the new one here, not us. They need to do things our way.”

Lots of agreement around the room.

Ken spoke up, “We could try making more noise than them, so they see what it is like. Maybe they will get fed up with it and leave.”

“I tried that Ken, but that only got me in trouble.”

“They are really cute,” Mary stated. “When they aren’t disrupting everything. Is there any way to talk to them and convince them to cooperate?”

“I tried that too, but they totally ignored me.”

“How rude,” Allie said. “We definitely need to do something about this intruder.”

“What if we stage a protest. We all go into our space and bring stuff with us. There will be no room for the pest to go. We will have our area back and they will just have to go somewhere else,” Amanda suggested.

I looked around the room. This idea seemed to be acceptable by all.

I picked up Amanda and gave her a big hug, “I should have gone to you first Amanda. Owls are always wise.”

The other members all agreed.

“Okay,” I smiled at everyone. “Nosey Nancy, as an elephant, you are my biggest stuffed animal, so you are first.”

“Let’s make it a huge Tea Party,” Mary suggested. “I could wear my princess tiara.”

I grabbed the tiara off my dresser and put it on my Princess Mary Dolly.

“Okay, everyone. One huge tea party to push the baby out of the living room. We can’t let that pesky thing keep taking over our house.”

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Give away

Teek's picture

Hmm, giving away the new resident - - reminds me of the song, Brother For Sale, by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen when they were little.

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Teek

I am very much impressed

I am very much impressed how you are able to craft such wonderful snippets that become complete stories with such delightful twist at the end.

Snippets

Teek's picture

Thanks

The little snippets have always been a problem for me. I'm long winded and can easily use way to many words to get my message across. I'd never make a good news or technical author.

I'm part of an online zoom writing group that meets once a week. We have about twenty minutes to write and then can share what we wrote. Most of the time I just write a little bit more for one of the bigger stories I am working on, but occasionally I will spend the 20 minutes writing one of these snippets. They're a fun challenge to fit a whole story in about 700 words or less, especially if you can put a fun twist at the end. Not a Bru level twist, but a twist.

I had a bunch of these piled up from the last two years in the group, so I decided to share them with you all. That is how I am pulling off one post a day at the moment. I have no idea how Angharad pulls off one chapter of Bike per day, but I guess it just comes down to blocking off some writing time every day and just writing. That is what I like about writing groups that meet regularly. They block off part of your day or week just for writing.

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Teek

That

was seriously funny. Someone is going to have to get used to the new baby.

OK, you got me.

Patricia Marie Allen's picture

I totally didn't see that one coming. Love it; too cute for words.

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Patricia

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