Welcome to Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. This week’s prompt photo is from La La of tales of a charm city chick, via Amy Reese.
I had a few ideas…but April Fools was just two days ago. So the theme here involves neighbors and pranks…
99 words
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Photo Copyright © Lauren Moscato
Each year, Calvin and Wendell were the “butt of the joke” of the neighbors next door. “Surprise!” the neighbors yelled. The two didn’t ask for the pranks—the spring-loaded boxing glove in the mail box, the giant dragon balloon no one could figured how it got into the living room.
This year, Calvin decided to get back at them.
“It’s a bit much, don’t you think?” said Wendell.
“Have you ever pranked anyone?”
“No.”
“Exactly. You don’t know what ‘too much’ is.”
The following day, two police officers arrived at their door.
“You’re lucky he survived the fall. …Who removes stairs?”
Participation is welcome to all. The goal is to write a story, beginning-middle-end, in 100 words or less. You are also encouraged to “think outside of the box.”
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The Dependent Independent 
Well…they still had it coming. 😉 Hopefully, they have good health insurance.
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Heh. Yeah, hopefully.
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Good thing he survived the fall! Maybe the pranks will stop now. 😀
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Maybe…Probably…Once it gets serious enough, people will think more seriously.
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Nothing like a bit of April Fool overkill 🙂
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I still feel bad for the dog in your story… 😦
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🙂
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That’s a serious prank! Great ending. Just a suggestion – I think this sentence needs rewording – the giant dragon balloon no one could figured how it got into the living room.
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It took long enough to craft that sentence alone—the intricacies and difficulties of the English language (at least for me). If I were to spell out the long-form construction for sentences like this, it would have exceeded the word limit. Rewriting it on the spot, I’d break into two sentences:
“…the spring-loaded boxing glove in the mail box, the giant dragon balloon. To this day, no one’s figured out how it got into the living room.”
(makes 101 words total…too late, now)
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The rewritten sentences sound good!
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But alas, it is too late, Rach.
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Oh well…next time.
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Well, one good prank deserves another. Poor Calvin and Wendell were pushed to the limit and those neighbours deserved some comeuppance. Perhaps removing the stairs was taking thins a bit too far, though. Haha. Great story. 🙂
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ha! that’ll teach ’em! good one. 🙂
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It’s all fun and games until someone gets their eye shot out. Practical jokers should be outlawed. Good story.
Aloha,
Doug
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Hahahaha.
Too much.
Over the edge.
But still funny.
Randy
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(Literally over the edge and into the pavement.) Thanks.
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Good prank but a nasty fall. 🙂
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