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Buster Busts Out
Buster Flattery, 5th grade leader of the Preservation of Caterpillars Society and all around good guy, was in perpetual motion mode – as usual. In fact he got the nickname Buster because of his speed. He was always busting into things. Today he planned on busting out. He shot from the house, spam sandwich in hand, to escape the drudgery of having to copy his spelling words in alphabetical order. He concentrated on his bid for liberty with an unparalleled singularity of mind, his gaze focused on the concealing shadows of the Willow Grove. Unfortunately, Buster didn’t see the telephone pole in his path until seconds before his face bounced off of it.
His sister, Florida, found him crumpled on the ground. She tried sprinkling him with water but the sprinkle didn’t do much for the Buster stains on the telephone pole or the telephone pole stains on Buster. They both needed corrective surgery. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed 911.
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Gypsy — thank you for the link.
Wonderful post Quilly!
You put a smile on my face.
Hugs,
Sue
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Sue — it is ever my goal to make folks smile.
Flattery as name! Dang, missed that one! What a great little story. I really got a feeling of Buster’s restless energy! Great job!
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Argent — thank you for the kind words.
It was great and it was short. I just loved it. It seems to be all you can ask of a wordzzle.
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Dr. John — one of the reasons’ I don’t do Raven’s Wordzzle is because I cannot find the time to read so many LONG posts.
Haha. A fictionalized account of a Grownups story. Naturally, I like the Buster stains on the phone pole. For the only-a-friend-would-tell-you department, though, perpetual and as usual are kind of redundant, aren’t they?
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Doug — your point?
That was amazing. How you came up with THAT story with THOSE words is just amazing! … Quilly… WHAT do you NOT do well?
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Melli — any number of things, I just don’t promote them!
I think you’re in the “maybe I’ll get this job at the school” frame of mind! I hope you don’t get a Buster to teach!
Great job and welcome back!
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SouthLakesMom — ah, but it is the Busters that keep the classroom interesting and lively.
Oops, posted with my other blog. I did my wordzzle at the Friends blog. Sorry!
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Reston — okay, but who else are you? I’ve not figured it out yet.
Brilliant and funny as always. NIce to have you join in again. Loved “the Buster stains on the telephone pole…”
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Raven — it was one of my favorite lines as well.
Although his name wasn’t Buster I went to school with a guy like this. Only thing is that telephone pole wouldn’t have bothered him in the least!
Great story!
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Carletta — I was a kid like Buster and I stained at least two telephone poles in my youth with no permanent damage to me!
It was hard work moving that pole but that kid won’t bully our friend any more.
Great writing and short.
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Ah! That explains why Buster didn’t see the pole. Good work, dragons!
Ah Quilly, you made me laugh with the glorious line about Buster stains on telephone pole or telephone stains on Buster. Brilliant.
Rich — thanks. That’s what I was angling for!
You did a great job of getting all those words in a very short piece.
My Wrodzzle is here:
http://proartz.blogspot.com/2009/09/erasing-past-short-fiction.html
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CJ — thank you.
Well done Q. I don’t know who to feel more sorry for Buster or the telephone pole. However, it does seem quite odd to me that a face could do that much damage to a telephone pol…but who am I to say
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Thom — go pour some blood on your floor. Now, try to scrub it up. Is there a stain? Hmmmm ……