My cousin Geoffrey suggested this
first line. I wrote for five minutes. This is what I
got.
"Hit me! Come on
hit me, don't tickle me! Hit me like I just robbed your gramma!", the
clown pressed Carl.
Carl tried to run.
The clown shoved him into the kitchen counter. Out in the living room the other kids were laughing and
singing.
The clown pressed his face so close to Carl’s his rubber
nose squeaked. “Look you little
bastard. I’m not going back to
prison without at least one black eye and a few missing teeth. You know what they do to clowns in
there? I won’t tell ya but it
ain’t funny. The cops know I’ve
got a pound of Coke on me. They’ll
be here any second so just give me a good pounding so I’m no pretty boy when I
get locked up.”
Carl started to cry.
“Come on kid!
How’ll you grow up to be a man if you can’t even punch a clown?”
“But what if I’m no good at it?” The little boy wailed.
“I’m bad at all the other party games. Pin the tail on the donkey, musical chairs….I wasn’t even a
good assistant with your magic tricks.
What if I’m no good at this game?”
Sirens blared in the distance.
“This isn’t a game kid! I’m going to be killed if you don’t….OKAY! It is a game and you get a new puppy if
you break my nose.”
“I don’t want a puppy.”
“Then what do you want? Say, your mom’s boyfriend, Jerry, he’s a real bastard. He spent a lot of money on this
party. So I’ll tell you want I’ll
make sure it’s ruined if you….”
Carl grabbed the rolling pin off the counter and smashed it
into the clown’s face. The clown
screamed bloody murder as the boy brought the pin down again and again.
The front door exploded. A SWAT team stormed the house knocking over children,
overturning the cake and shoving Jerry into a cactus.
The clown was dragged away covered in blood and burns, “Great job kid! You’re a pro!”
No comments:
Post a Comment