100 word stories #2: Underpants
For three weeks I wore the underpants of the undead.
This is what happened.
Before Christmas, the man who lives next door to me got sick. Cancer. When he was too ill to stay at home, he went into hospital.
Alone for the first time in fifty years , his wife was beside herself. Perhaps as a coping mechanism, she started giving away his possessions – while he was still alive.
Golf clubs. Reading glasses. Even his underpants.
It was a tense three weeks. All I could think was, if he goes into remission, I’ve got some explaining to do.
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Deeply weird – jackets, trousers even, maybe a shirt but underpants!
LOL – I could get used to reading these each day. Keep going!
Ha ha ha, thats pretty good!
Allow me to assume that is a true story…
fleece. for a cat you are suspiciously good with words? the only cats i know keep me up until three in the morning mating, until i throw stones at them, and then awaken to find they’ve pissed on my table. obviously if they could write, as you claim to be able to, they could simply leave me a note.
however, i’ll forgive your breed it’s feral behaviour on account of your ‘novel’ fetish (obviously ‘pilgrim’ has been living a sheltered life on account of his/her religious convictions)and desire to make friends with pirate.
i can only assume there was something drawing about the pants in question- that they were crotchless perhaps, or latex. you omitted to expand, but then you only had a hundred words.
Ha ha! That’s fantastic. I’m very glad I allowed myself to get sidetracked into someone’s underpants? Thanks for writing about them. I like your microfictional endeavours, keep them coming, please!
NOW I will comment on your poem.
This is so clever. I really enjoyed reading it; it kept me guessing to the last line. Well done (but then you know I love your writing).
Sorry to be off topic but…
We’re having a Melbourne Meetup and thought you might like to come along
Here’s the details.
Jo
Fleecey,
why is your head wrong?
glad to see you back here:)
x
Hello, off topic here… Again… But you said you were unreliable!
I’m just reminding everyone who showed some interest in the Melbourne Meet Up that it is this Friday @ Monties. Hope to see you there!
PLANS CHANGED!!!
Monties are renovating and forgot to notify me so, on to plan B – Marquis Of Lorne
what is it they say about the best laid plans again?
The details are all in the original forum post