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May 14, 2005
Volume 1, Issue 2
The inspiration for today's series of entries came from CreativeWritingPrompts.com - where, yesterday, Andy selected the 13th prompt as yesterday was May 13th. You're dealing with creative minds, you see. That prompt read:
Write about a weird day in your workplace.Of course, we're all about making stuff up here, so everyone was under orders to take the prompt, mix with a good dose of fiction, and come up with 100 words of carefully distilled genius.
Looks like we might have a lot of Les Nessman mea culpas coming up after this issue...
Andy: Creep
I shove my right arm into the shrinking space between the elevator doors.
“Sorry,” I say.
She nods, looks forward again. My parking lot guess from ten yards was spot on: the front is as good as the back.
The doors close.
She watches the digits. Red hair, spilled against a white blouse stretched tight across her tits. Nice ass, navy skirt, just a shadow of a panty line. I imagine my hands running up her pale legs, raising her skirt, touching….
The doors open.
The stout receptionist from nine steps in; she smells of sweat and rubber chew toys.
Michele : Mugged
Since Jen’s death her coffee mug has gone untouched. It’s like one of those roadside memorials, with the flowers and signs. Instead of roses, there’s mold.
On the third day, the mold has formed a circle the size of a Kennedy half dollar. It’s a small bruise; black and green with a crop of fuzzy pus around the edge.
By the fifth day a layer of dust has formed on the outside of the mug, and Garfield and Odie sport a five o’clock shadow of grime.
On the seventh day, a new girl takes Jen’s spot. The mug is gone.
Stacy: Dorfman
They just took Dorfman out in a body bag. Which is good, because he was beginning to smell, and I have to get this report done by five.
The cops interrupt me with questions. No, nobody liked Dorfman, he was weird and he smelled like onions all the time. People would walk across the room just to avoid the stench coming from his cubicle.
Not that he smelled any better dead.
No, I don't know who might have wanted him dead. Someone who was trying to get their report done, maybe? Ha ha.
Twenty minutes to five. Back to work.
Ted: Les Nessman Copout
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.