Gold Sheep

Three pandas stood on their hind legs outside the large, ornate door. They avoided eye contact and fidgeted, scratching themselves with their big paws. Then the alarm went off and the red light above the door began flashing. The pandas waited and soon the door opened slowly, allowing a large flock of sheep to come rushing through. The pandas gently pawed the sheep as they passed, watching them closely until a gold-colored one came out and one of the pandas dove for this one, hugging it as it ran. The sheep was powerful and it dragged the panda as it ran but the two other pandas joined in and they successfully separated the gold sheep from the flock and held onto it as it bleated. “Get Marty and the truck,” one of the pandas said and one of the other pandas ran off. Continue reading

Cassie’s Sister

Two ladies walked through the parking lot, one carrying a bouquet of flowers. They both wore light grey business suits and the one with the flowers had a colorful silk scarf. She handed a card to the other one. “You give her this,” she said.When they got inside they stood at the end of the swimming pool and waited as swimmers did laps. A young girl finished a lap and swam up to them. “Who are those for?” she asked the one with the flowers, holding the edge of the pool with wet hands. “We were going to give them to your sister,” said the woman. Then she burst out crying. The other woman comforted her, stroking her arm gently. Then she held out the card to the girl in the pool. She knelt by the edge and handed it down. The girl opened it and several hundred dollar bills fell out of it, dropping into the water. The girl grabbed them out of the water and went on to read the card. “This is for Cassie,” she said, trying to hand it back up.

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Chimp

Melvin stepped out of the white armored car, carrying one of the deliveries, and was gunned down immediately. He only had time to say, “Spthutt–! Whaduhhh—!!” before his various body parts rained down across the concrete, creating an image on the sidewalk resembling a Rorschach test. The forensics guys looked at the mess. “I think it looks like two boobies and that’s like a kitty-cat’s face- see that’s the ears and that’s the whiskers,” one said.“No,” said the other. “I see a witch leaning over a cauldron. See, there’s the pointy hat, there’s the pot.”

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