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It’s Wednesday, and Rochelle has ushered in another 100ish word flash fiction, with a prompt photo by Janet Webb featuring a big icicle dangling rather precariously off a bush. I sure hope it doesn’t fall on somebody!
I’ve gone for a rather silly one this week. For other contributions, click on the blue froggy!
Copyright Janet Webb
NewsRightNow.com 03/12/2014
Tributes were paid today to Britain’s best-known sunbather, Douglas “Fruitcake” Norris, who died in his back garden in Upper Littlebridge, aged 79.
Norris, famous for sunbathing in all temperatures, was sadly impaled through the brain while catching some rays underneath a large icicle, which became dislodged in rising temperatures.
“He was a lovely person who will be sorely missed,” said his daughter, Natalie Norris (43), while dangling upside-down from her washing line in her underwear. “We won’t see the likes of his nuttiness again.”
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I love this. Those darn icicles. RIP Fruitcake.
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He had a good innings 🙂
I was going to say “maybe next time he’ll watch where he’s sunbathing” but then I remembered he’s dead.
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You’re so morbid. 😀
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Heh heh 🙂
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As usual, your stories never fail to make me smile! We’ll sure be missing Fruitcake Norris, but something tells me we won’t miss his nuttiness for long 🙂
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I have a feeling there’s plenty more nuttiness in the little hamlet of Upper Littlebridge 🙂
I’m glad I made you smile.
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How far do you live from Upper Littlebridge? Just wondering… 😉
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Are you implying that I might have had something to do with “accidentally” dislodging the icicle? The very idea 😉
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Yeah, we’ll go with that theory then 😀
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The icicle was probably acting as a lens and magnifying the rays – at least he went doing something he loved!
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He was probably wondering how come he was getting such a lovely warm tan right up until…
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Haha. A little dark humor. Fun.
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Glad you liked it! I haven’t done any dark humour for a few weeks now so it was about time.
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Film at 11?
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I reckon it would make a good film at 11.
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OMG…that was hilarious!
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Glad to see that his nuttiness is alive and well in his daughter, even if she doesn’t realise it yet. I suspect she will be very proud once people start to point out how like her lovely father she is.
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I’m sure she will be, I just hope she doesn’t meet a similar end 😦
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LOL It’s not only his daughter the nuttiness is alive and well in D-Man 😀
I love reading your flash fiction – one never knows what might happen next.
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It’s a roller coaster of nuttiness 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Haha – well done! Greatly imaginative and of course funny!
~ A ❤
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“while dangling upside-down from her washing line in her underwear”…those lines are what makes your stories fun to read. Have you ever been committed for your lunacy? I thought I saw you on the lawn of the rest home up in Upper Littlebridge.
DJ
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Um, that wasn’t me, ahem 😉
I’m glad you liked it!
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r.i.p. as for the daughter, at least, she’s in her underwear. 🙂
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That’s something to be thankful for 🙂
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I love this story. It is great.
I needed the laugh.
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I’m glad you got a laugh when you needed it 🙂
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Ali, Another story of dark humor straight from your great imagination. Just how many chemical dumps are there in England? They’re going to keep the mental hospitals busy now and in future. I hope the daughter doesn’t fall on her head. Hilarious and well written. 😀 — Susan
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Susan,
I’m hoping there aren’t any chemical dumps in England but there must be a few around the place. I hope the daughter will be okay too, I’m guessing she does this a lot!
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Ali
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Sunbaking in winter? I’m guessing those chemicals might have had high concentrations of lead.
Very amusing.
KT
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I reckon it’s a whole cocktail of chemicals which has caused their odd behaviour. Glad you liked it!
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Dear Draliman,
This was a perfect story. Funny and lunatic and spot on serious. I am still chuckling as I swing upside down from the clothesline and type this comment. Well done.
Aloha,
Doug
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Dear Doug,
Thanks! I’m glad you spotted the little serious note as well. Careful on that clothes line!
Ali
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Dear Ali,
You have exceeded all expectations. I laughed out loud and am grateful I wasn’t drinking at the time. I surely would’ve spewed coffee from my nose. Brilliant, if not twisted, bit humor.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I’m so glad I made you laugh 🙂 That’s always good to hear.
Ali
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OMG! This is so funny! From the “Tributes” to “again.”
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I’m glad you liked it! Yep, it ended on a serious note.
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Brain freeze!
On a tangent, Icicles are the perfect murder weapon. It’s a virtual lock your fingerprints won’t stay on the melted water….
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And you don’t get any of those awkward questions about the missing knife in the knife block.
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If you loved the father, you’ll love the entire family.
I used to hang with the daughter myself.
Randy
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Ha ha, “hang”, upside down I take it. Well punned 🙂
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Hahaha! Some people are that way without any chemicals at all 😛 They don’t help, though.
Ellespeth
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They certainly don’t. I expect even without the chemicals this family would have been described as “eccentric”.
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Dear Draliman, You are nutty and funny and wonderful! This is hilarious and so quirky! Love it, love it, love it! Funny! Nan 🙂
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Dear Nan,
I’m so pleased you loved it so much 🙂
Ali
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Cute story. It made me shiver just to think about sun bathing in those temperatures. At least he went out doing something he enjoyed.
Cheers!
Marie Gail
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It was quite a chilly week of stories all round thanks to the photo!
I guess the manner of his demise will just add to the myth/urban legend of the “year-round sunbather” in years to come and yes, it was probably how he would have wanted to go 🙂
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I hope Natalie won’t lose her underwear, hanging upside down. 🙂
Lily
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Ha, I hope not! The original draft was “nightie” but then I thought, ooh no, that’ll just fall off over her head 🙂
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Ha – seems like daughters inherit some craziness after all. Being impaled by falling icicles has actually happened here in Sweden…
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Seems so!
Wow, nasty. I imagined it could happen, they can get very large and sharp.
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Ha! This is great, Alistair. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and now all the pieces are coming together with the chemical waste. The damage has been done. Oh, this is really funny. Thanks for the laugh. Impaled by an icicle. Oh, ouch!
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Like father, like daughter. Poor people!
I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Funny characters, funny story. We’d all better watch out where we sunbathe. Not so much for the icicle risk, but for what’s beneath our feet, in the soil and in the air we breathe.
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Indeed. Without the chemicals he probably wouldn’t have been out there in the first place.
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