Clever!

I love Ficlet Friday!

I totally dig the whole Looney Tunes/Warner Brothers cartoon angle of his interaction with the gun.

Nice surprise ending as well.

I really enjoyed this quirky story. The last line maintained the bizarre tone, but I don’t quite get it. Very interesting.

Quirky is the right word, but an absolutely hilarious visual, picturing this poor befuddled guy checking and rechecking the severed hand in his mailbox only to mosey back inside and calmly call 911. So fun.

Wow, that was wonderful! I agree with THX , that is a great visual.

I loved this, Will. In fact, it inspired me to write my first prequel. Thanks for that!

So glad I caught Wil’s blog post about his prequel. I missed this one in the story list and it’s a gem. I really loved the wife’s payoff line – great humour.

That one word was the perfect ending to this one. Pretty funny, and as thebetweenspace said, quirky. An interesting situation to land up in.

Well done sir, well done.

Love it, really enjoyed the possibilities for prequel and / or sequel that this offers and the central premise is just so ‘off-the-wall’ cool too.

Bravo!

I also enjoyed the surprise ending. There are a lot of different directions a prequel could go. About to go read what Wil Wheaton wrote.

I don’t really get the last line.. Maybe I’m just to tired tonight.. But I love the rest of it. Very odd situation. =)

LoA

Haha this has a sense of hidden humor and the end is such a cliff hanger. It one of those things hat is so wrong yet its so right.
5stars

I was curious what the graph of ficlets linked to this one would look like, so have created a quick hack for visualising ficlet graphs. You can see the graph for this ficlet at http://neilb.org/ficlets/graph-29220.html

It’s an image map – click on each bubble to go to that ficlet.

Man, Neilb, how cool is that? I’d wondered what a graph of pre/sequels would look like, and you’ve actually done it! Great work. What I’d be curious to know is how many of the readers that find any one story do so by following a sequel or prequel link. Or do most readers go by title or author alone?

Using the present tense gives this an even flatter, more mundane feel, which makes the find even more bizarre. I feel like I’m half-asleep reading it. Well done.

Gonna join the crowd here and say “Awesome!” I enjoyed the heck out of this one, the mundane feel to it, the flabbergasted attitude of the husband, the exasperation of the wife (how long’s she been waiting for THAT package?). Very well done, excellent mood-setting and pacing.

Well, all that’s left to say is, “Prepare yourself sir.”

Well, all that’s left to say is, “Prepare yourself sir.”