10 stories in 3 sentances or less
May. 29th, 2004 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhan1. When I was 4, I used to play in hide-and-seek in the tall grass of the vacant lot near my house. When I drive by the corner now, it has a red stone building covered in ivy that's been growing over it for more than 30 years. It makes me feel weird to look at it.
2. When I was -- maybe 7? -- I was caught in the middle of one of my parents fights, running back and forth in response to each new command to "Come here", "No, come HERE". I was laughing at first, but I stopped thinking it was funny when they each grabbed an arm and started to pull. They dropped me in response to my screams, and I ran into my bedroom and went into complete hysterics.
3. When I was 8 my parents put our dog along with her puppies into a "kennel" so we could go to Ireland for the summer. When we returned we pestered them for months wanting to know when we could go get her. It was years later that we found out she'd been put down.
4. In junior high I was sewing something for a Home Ec project and the needle snapped off and flew into my eye. I didn't realize it had pierced the cornea until I wiped away what I thought were tears and found blood on my hand. I have a slight astigmatism in that eye as a result of the scar.
5. When I was 14 I got a job helping some guy who made models of dinosaur parts for the Royal Ontario Museum. He showed me around the rooms where they clean and store the bones, and I got to see the beetle box. He made a pass at me and after I turned him down I didn't work for him any more.
6. I was once sexually assaulted by a woman. It took me so long to get over the complete stupifaction of what was going on that it took me forever to finally react and defend myself.
7. I had a poltergeist in my pre-teen years that used to throw things around, move things, and turn appliances off and on. It came back for a while when I was living with the wife-beater. Once it threw a mug against the wall so hard it shattered into splinters.
8. When I was still quite young I saw a trailer for the Beast of Five Fingers, which featured a disembodied hand crawling around and strangling people. That night as I lay awake next to my sister in our shared bed, she poked her foot out from under the covers and wriggled her toes in her sleep. It's the closest I have ever come to shitting myself in my entire life.
9. My sister always spends a lot of time with her pets, talking to them to the extent that I firmly believe they learn to understand English. I once watched her ask her cat where something was; the cat looked up, jumped off the bookshelf she had been lounging on, ran under the table, pointed out the object with her chin and went back to her resting spot. I have witnesses.
10. I was invited to a "tribe" on tribe.net that was devoted to World Domination. I dropped out after a couple of weeks because nobody took it seriously.
What?
2. When I was -- maybe 7? -- I was caught in the middle of one of my parents fights, running back and forth in response to each new command to "Come here", "No, come HERE". I was laughing at first, but I stopped thinking it was funny when they each grabbed an arm and started to pull. They dropped me in response to my screams, and I ran into my bedroom and went into complete hysterics.
3. When I was 8 my parents put our dog along with her puppies into a "kennel" so we could go to Ireland for the summer. When we returned we pestered them for months wanting to know when we could go get her. It was years later that we found out she'd been put down.
4. In junior high I was sewing something for a Home Ec project and the needle snapped off and flew into my eye. I didn't realize it had pierced the cornea until I wiped away what I thought were tears and found blood on my hand. I have a slight astigmatism in that eye as a result of the scar.
5. When I was 14 I got a job helping some guy who made models of dinosaur parts for the Royal Ontario Museum. He showed me around the rooms where they clean and store the bones, and I got to see the beetle box. He made a pass at me and after I turned him down I didn't work for him any more.
6. I was once sexually assaulted by a woman. It took me so long to get over the complete stupifaction of what was going on that it took me forever to finally react and defend myself.
7. I had a poltergeist in my pre-teen years that used to throw things around, move things, and turn appliances off and on. It came back for a while when I was living with the wife-beater. Once it threw a mug against the wall so hard it shattered into splinters.
8. When I was still quite young I saw a trailer for the Beast of Five Fingers, which featured a disembodied hand crawling around and strangling people. That night as I lay awake next to my sister in our shared bed, she poked her foot out from under the covers and wriggled her toes in her sleep. It's the closest I have ever come to shitting myself in my entire life.
9. My sister always spends a lot of time with her pets, talking to them to the extent that I firmly believe they learn to understand English. I once watched her ask her cat where something was; the cat looked up, jumped off the bookshelf she had been lounging on, ran under the table, pointed out the object with her chin and went back to her resting spot. I have witnesses.
10. I was invited to a "tribe" on tribe.net that was devoted to World Domination. I dropped out after a couple of weeks because nobody took it seriously.
What?
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Date: 2004-05-29 05:16 am (UTC)Scary.
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Date: 2004-05-30 02:19 pm (UTC)Which one?
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Date: 2004-05-29 06:50 am (UTC)So, when does the movie come out?
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Date: 2004-05-29 07:44 am (UTC)Seriously.
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Date: 2004-05-29 09:06 am (UTC)I was scraping bottom trying to find 10 stories from my life. Siobhan's got 20 down already, they're all good stories, and I'm willing to bet she's got dozens more.
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Date: 2004-05-30 02:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-30 02:21 pm (UTC)