Two Sentence Story

[Beezer]

Okay, folks. I tried some different versions of this before with mixed results. No harm in trying again, I figure.

You just have to wait for 2 posters to reply before adding again. I'll start...

Charlotte opened the front door and stared at the package below her feet. Could this be a gift for her 14th birthday?

 

[LadyEmeraude]

The Package was a bit large, Charlotte was hesitant to continue..
She took one deep breath and decided to bring it in her house.

 

[Naturally]

Charlotte's cat Taz set about examining the package.
Charlotte checked the surprise package label for correct delivery.

 

[oscash]

It was from her favourite Aunt. Bessie who said she would send her a gift for her birthday.
As she opened up the package, she let out a scream because it was something she had always wanted.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

A bead-filled reader pillow in her favourite colour; turquoise. How did her Aunt Bessie ever know?

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[timoc]

Aunt Bessie knows all.
Aunt Bessie reads the tealeaves.

 

[Balzac]

Many years before, Bessie had tried to read teabags, but with no success. Tealeaves, from loose tea brewed in a pot, had finally allowed her psychic abilities to flourish..

 

[timoc]

Bessie also has a passion for Uncle Joe's Mint ball sweets.

Whenever she shows up in this locality we daren't suck one because she can smell them on the air.

 

[bobcat]

As Charlotte removed the pillow from the package, a note fell out that read;
"Send your mind on a voyage that may take you to destinations you could never imagine".

 

[Mizmo]

For Charlotte ,at age 14, this was a difficult decision but she was a smart young lady.
Wow, maybe a trip to the Moon?

 

[hollydolly]

Charlottes' Uncle Keith who could play a bit of guitar, knew all about the Moon

He offered to teach Charlotte on her new guitar to play Space oddity

 

[Beezer]

Charlotte's stepfather descended the stairs and said, "Oh, look! The special Birthday girl got a gift today." Charlotte could smell the alcohol on his breath even though it was still early in the morning.

 

[Llynn]

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[OldFeller]

The story so far...
Charlotte receives an unexpected gift fom her Aunt Bessie (as if anyone actually has a relative named Bessie) which pleases her step father, who is yet unnamed and not likely to have the name, Bessie.

Charlotte was having a hard time letting her mind drift as Bessie's gravity sensitive note suggested.

And now for a short, somehow remotely related, musical interlude....

A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado
A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm
Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu
And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far
This is the story so far
Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins
You scrawl out your poems across a beermat or two
And when you declare the point of grave creation
They turn round and you to tell them the story so far
This is the story so far

And you listen with a tear in you eye
To their hopes and betrayals and your only reply
Is Slainte Mhath

Princes in exile raising the standard Drambuie
Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns
Holding their own last orders commanding attention
We sit here and listen to all of the story so far
This is the story so far

Take it away, take it away, take it away
Take me away, take me away, take me away

From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen
From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men
From the realisation that we've been left behind
Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line

Waiting on the whistle to blow
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow
They promised us miracles, and the whistle still blows
Broken promises but the whistle still blows
Waiting on the whistle to blow
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow

 

[oscash]

After listening to that song, Charlotte watched her drunken stepfather actually go for a cropper down the stairs, he was in a tangled mess.
All she wanted to do was enjoy her birthday and now he has spoilt everything.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Charlotte decided in order to clear her head and nose from the smell of her drunk step father's breath, she'd go for a walk around the grounds.

She couldn't believe it when she came across a unicorn near the pond!

 

[timoc]

Charlotte approached the Unicorn and said, "My name is, Lotte, what is yours?"

"You can call me, Yoonee", replied the Unicorn, "And I'm partoial to Uncle Joe's Mint Balls too, gizz one."

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Charlotte remembered that she'd heard rumors that her aunt was a witch, a good one of course.

She wondered if Aunt Bessie had conjured up this beautiful, mythical unicorn as an additional surprise birthday present.

 

[bobcat]

But then Charlotte remembered a story from her childhood about Alice In Wonderland,
and wondered if somehow magically the same thing was happening to her.

 

[Jamala]

What Charlotte didn't know, was that Aunt Bessie liked a "smoke".
Some of the beads in the pillow were saturated with the stuff....now poor Charlotte was having hallucinations!

 

[oscash]

Yes, come to think of it they were those 'funny cigarettes' which takes you to another place and time.
Charlotte was now as high as a kite and could see herself flying up to the sky. I wonder where she will end up?

 

[timoc]

Lotte, now sitting on Yoonee's back, was drifting, meandering, higher and higher, then she came in sight of 'Tim's Ice cream Parlour' in the sky (an obsolete space station).

Eagle eyed, Tim, seeing Lotte approaching (and knowing what a glutton for ice cream, Lotte was), quickly shut up shop and switched all the lights off.

 

[oscash]

Poor Charlotte was so disappointed seeing the ice cream parlour closed so she directed herself to a Mardi Gras parade in the distance.
She managed to get a costume with huge feathers on the tail, she looked like a big pink Ostrich and joined the others, I wonder where this would take her?

 

[Kaila]

The clouds opened up, and Charlotte didn't know what to do.

When a path became clearly visible, she girded herself and stepped forward.

 

[Mizmo]

So there she was all pink and fluffy and got lost in the swirl of other fluffy people and just gasping for ice cream.

She was not happy and thought again about a magical flight to the moon and wondered if a pink fluffy Ostrich would be acceptable there.