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November 26, 2017 in Blogs! | Tags: "Bedtime Story", "Robin's Permanent Life-Change", "The Choking Doberman and Other Urban Legends", "The World's Shortest Stories", Aunt Robin, books, Jan Harold Brunvand, Jeffrey Whitmore, reading, Steve Moss | 5 comments
…Mr. Mercedes, and am now on to a book about urban legends called The Choking Doberman and Other Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand.
Actually, in between those two books I quickly read The World’s Shortest Stories.
Edited by the late Steve Moss, this book collects extremely short stories from a wide range of authors. And I mean “short” as in “each story clocks in at (or under) 55 words,” which looks like this:
Obviously, this is why I flew through it in an hour.
My good friend Jamie gave me this book for Christmas in 1998 (back when she was my good girlfriend Jamie), but I couldn’t remember if ever actually read it so I decided to give it a quick read.
Reading this book reminded me of a short story I wrote a few years ago called Robin’s Permanent Life-Change. I can’t remember why I wrote it other than the fact that the idea for it was sparked by my Aunt Robin. It doesn’t come in under the 55-word limit that the book requires of its stories, but at only 81 words it’s still pretty damn short. Check it out:
Robin’s Permanent Life-Change
Robin’s perm had been sitting on top of her head since Jimmy Carter sat in the Oval Office. She didn’t care what current trends dictated or close friends thought; she loved her perm, and she especially enjoyed the time she spent with Gladys, her hairstylist of nearly 35 years.
But when Gladys died suddenly of heart disease, Robin made a decision that would change her life forever: she would finally begin construction on the time machine she had designed decades earlier.
Anyway, I might be able to cram one more book into 2017, but we’ll see.
Maybe I’ll read the Bible for Christmas,