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Home at last - and asleep

by Susan Holder is terrific

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Jocinda looked from the mice to the fish, then turned toward the ladder in the corner of the room and made her way up out of the cell. Seeing the small 15 foot room obscured from sight as she closed the hard white leather of second base made her feel slightly more normal. The cat and snake came up to her.

“Guten abend.”, said the snake, reverting back to his horrid German accent.

“Heil.”, she replied, thinking it the most appropriate response to the insanity of the day.

Fluffy looked up at her, seeing that stress and incredulity had finally taken their toll. “Shall we go home?”, he asked.

“Yes… but for once, let’s do something normal and take a cab.”, she said.

Outside Yankee Stadium, a yellow cab stopped in response to their waves.

“N. 87th St. please.”, Jocinda said, then laid her head on the cool hardness of the window.

Arriving home, she struggled out of her paisley shirt, slippers, and khaki pants, slid into the cool of her unmade bed, and fell asleep.

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Average Reader Rating: 4.0 stars out of 5

  1. Home at last - and asleep

    Susan Holder is terrific's Buddy Icon Susan Holder is terrific

    Posted about 1 year ago

    I know this bites. However, Jocinda wasn’t the one privy to every thing that happened. It was the mice who have the story of how the cookie was defeated, why the moon is/isn’t made of cheese, what was that Eden incident and how DO the mice figure in it, and WHY is Flandip so darn buggered about finishing this mission a few years ago… OH – and ‘milk and cheese planet from an ‘advanced culture’ – my idea of a wonderful joke.. :)

    I hope you enjoyed the story – I really liked writing it. :)

  2. Home at last - and asleep

    SJHundak/S.J.Willing's Buddy Icon SJHundak/S.J.Willing

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    it was fun, thank you.,

    S.J.

  3. Home at last - and asleep

    StrugglingWriter's Buddy Icon StrugglingWriter

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    I really enjoyed reading this story and writing my couple of small parts. I need to go back and read the whole thing. I can’t wait for them to add that type of feature to the site (you know, make it easy to read an entire story).

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