My parents couldn't afford vitamins so my mother would put a dirty cheerio in our mouth every morning and say a prayer for us. We never went to church, my mother just adopted the things she liked from all religions. They got the house for a steal because it was supposedly haunted and there were things that just couldn't be explained like no matter what you did the house wouldn't get above 68 degrees. None of my friends would come over to play much less spend the night and it didn't help when my father bought that Hearse for next to nothing. My mother was born on Halloween but the only kids that came to our door were those on a dare which made dad happy because he never had to buy candy. Ours was the only house on plague street and the mail man wouldn't even slow down, my father would smile as the bills blew away in the wind.

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Comment by essygie on April 23, 2009 at 8:31pm
loved this - and such a cool and funny first line :-)
Comment by Allie on April 20, 2009 at 2:27pm
If your father had a hearse, then he was an undertaker? Maybe you guys were the reason it was haunted.
Comment by Bianca on April 19, 2009 at 4:06am
Nice one! I think the dirty cheerio "vitamin" is the root to your germ problems. :)
Comment by John Wiswell on April 18, 2009 at 4:37pm
Now that is imaginative. Succinct and clever. I like how it becomes increasingly excited, such that by the fifth sentence you could misread to think the speaker's mother was actually born during his own lifetime.
Comment by Amanda on April 18, 2009 at 7:34am
Jay - made me smile and kept me wanting more - truly a great one! i love the dirty cheerio vitamin alternative!
Comment by Brad Rose on April 17, 2009 at 10:27pm
When I read your writing Jay,like this fine one here, I am reminded of that quote by Paul Valery "Every view of things that is not strange is false.” Nice work.
Comment by Lorianne on April 17, 2009 at 4:00pm
"irany" *snort* thats comedy right there.
Comment by molly on April 17, 2009 at 3:57pm
love this, really original
Comment by Michael Solender on April 17, 2009 at 3:31pm
it's pedant
Comment by Emma Lucy James on April 17, 2009 at 2:19pm
Im sure I know this family...he he. Good story.

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