The Day Timmy Saved the World
Here is my contribution to Friday Fictioneers for this week. This is a weekly challenge hosted by Rochelle and this week the prompt photo was contributed by Marie Gail Stratford. Thanks, Marie Gail Stratford!
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Copyright Marie Gail Stratford
It had existed since the beginning of time, its crystalline shell holding safe its essence. It had seen stars explode, planets burn. Many of these cosmic catastrophes it had caused, for it was bored and spiteful.
Now it had found a new victim for its amusement. The planet Earth.
Hiding in plain sight on a mantelpiece in a small terraced house in Catford, it gathered its will and made ready to strike…
… and smashed on the floor, its billions of years of existence and hatred shattered.
“Timmy! What have I told you about playing football in the house? That was a wedding gift.”
“Sorry, Mum!”
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draliman on life 
Not with a whimper, but a bang. Bye bye!
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All the things it could have taught us, if it hadn’t been a psychopath. And extremely breakable.
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Makes you wonder what kind of friend gave them that for a wedding gift? 🙂
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I’m sure they just thought it was just a real pretty crystal 🙂
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True. I will now be looking for signs of evil from my coworker’s crystal paperweight though. Just in case…
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Don’t let it out of your sight 😦
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Saved by a boy with a football! Who knew we no longer need Superman? Lovely tale.
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Not every superhero is easily identifiable by wearing their underpants on top of their trousers.
Glad you liked it!
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I love child heroes; they can do the most amazing things quite innocently (or not quite so innocently in Timmy’s case) 😀
Nice one D-man
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And he’ll never know what he did 🙂
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Brilliant. Buy Timmy an ice cream and send me the bill. 😀 Love, love this story!
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He’ll have a mint choc chip, thanks!
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Uh-huh. Likely excuse Timmy. 😉 Great story! I love the prose in the beginning.
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Thanks, I tried to start all deep and ominous before dragging it into “normality”.
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I have to admit… we’ve all done it!
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Yep 🙂
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Just another reason to play football in the house! Nicely done.
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As if we needed another reason 🙂
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she didn’t seem to be upset. it must be something that she wanted to get rid of anyway but couldn’t because it was a gift. in her mind, she must be thanking timmy.
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I wondered about that as well.
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DrAli, I think I am confused, not sure.
I read the story twice, enlarged photo prior to reading your story then I read all the comments.
The story I read doesn’t seem to match some of your comments. Plus a few or more of your comments seem to be writing about different story’s.
So, great story DrAli, leave it at that.
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There’s this timeless entity encased in crystal creating havoc in the universe. It’s currently on Earth masquerading as an ornament and is on the verge of destroying the world when Timmy hits it with a football and smashes it to bits, thus saving the world 🙂
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Thank you, my mistake.
I thought the boy released the enemy upon us by breaking the ornament.
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I erred again and I’ve not a clue how I misread the first time. Title says it all, I am your in house idiot.
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I often comment on a story before I remember to read the title!
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Dear draliman, Good story and I think the boy did us all an enormous favor. Cute story! Nan 🙂 Okay, I’ll get the kid an ice cream cone too!
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Wow, he’s going to get a sugar rush 🙂
Glad you liked it!
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I really liked this concept and you handled it really well. Good one
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it! Another 50 words would have been nice though 🙂
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And Pa’s Elvis Presley memorial, Jack Daniels decanter went down with it. Good shot, Timmy! 🙄
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Ha! As long as it wasn’t full of Pa’s 30 year old Scotch 🙂
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Love how it cuts out of the build-up to normality and “Timmy” breakin’ stuff.
LIttle note: you don’t need ‘the’ in “The planet Earth.”
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Thanks, that’s exactly what I was going for – dark and ominous to sudden normality.
True, I didn’t need “The”. Typical, I spent ages cutting out 40 words I wanted and left one in I didn’t need 🙂 Thanks!
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Hilarious, Ali. I sat here and laughted out loud. 😀 I almost felt sorry for the entity–almost. Okay, let’s all go and check anything we own that’s crystal. Well done. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I also almost feel sorry for it, after all this time to meet such an end 🙂
You never know what might be hiding in your crystal. Many believe crystals have mystical power, after all.
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I thought this might brighten your day. [?] [?][?] Mom
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? 🙂
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Sorry about that,Ali. I thought I was sending something to my daughter. Confusion reigned. 😦 I must have been too tired to be on the computer.
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I guessed it was meant for a son or daughter 🙂
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That’s what’s called, “The Working Dead.” 😀
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Hee hee 🙂
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Good use of crystals. 🙂
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Thanks. Maybe there’s a mystical thingy hiding in every one!
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Maybe they finally had an excuse for not having that hideous wedding-gift on the mantelpiece… sounds like a good excuse.
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Yeah, I reckon Timmy did them a favour (on top of saving the world!).
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I’m laughing out loud at the great ending to your story. The universe saved by a boy and his football. Excellent!
janet
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Thanks! I hope he doesn’t get into too much trouble, considering he saved the world and all 🙂
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This FF story gave me a flashback to a book my 8th grade language arts class read back in the day, and that I hadn’t thought about in ages. They’re not really the same, but there’s enough similarities in the plot to see why I would have thought of it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Pig
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Even the title of that book makes me want to read it.
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Haha – good one! Foiled by a boy with a football. 🙂
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Such a poor end for a timeless cosmic entity 🙂
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i live with a boy and a football and I will now look at breakages in a new light! (except for the antique Felix the cat stature holding a fob watch) 😦
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We have to draw the line somewhere. Let’s hope that statue is not where “it” is hiding 🙂
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Cosmic karma has a way of working out for the good.
And besides – what karma can’t handle a misplaced spiral pass can.
Randy
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Not a very robust entity for all its past misdeeds.
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great things sometimes come in small packages.
look at what an atom can do.
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Good boy Timmy! The future hero of the world. 😀 Excellent story. I was pulled into and so glad it had a happy ending. 🙂
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All’s well that ends well, except possibly for Timmy and the extra chores he’ll have to do for playing football indoors 🙂
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Well that’s true! His mother doesn’t even know what a wonderful thing he did! I really enjoyed your story.
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Thanks 🙂
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And what a splendid imagination Timmy has. I completely fell for his story. Nice job! Funny twist.
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I wasn’t thinking that, but I like the idea that Timmy’s concocted this story to get out of trouble 🙂
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Dear Ali,
Timmy has a great imagination but not a lot of common sense. I loved this. If you named this child Christian, it would’ve been the story of my youngest son as a boy.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
It’s actually the name of my younger brother (though he was always “Tim”). We had our moments!
Ali
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Laughing out loud here, too. Perfect move from sinister threat to funny rescue.
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I’m glad you liked it! Sinister to funny was my goal 🙂
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Ah, the boy who killed god. Sinister to funny, you did.
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Thanks, I’m glad it worked the way I planned.
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Childish imagination or true salvation? Sometimes is hard to separate the two.
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That’s right, did he really save the world or is he going to grow up to be a great author of sci-fi?
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This one was wonderfully imaginative!
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Thanks! Whenever I see crystals I always think sci-fi/fantasy 🙂
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Haha! And Timmy doesn’t even know what he’s done for the world…
Seems funny though, that a thing that had survived that long was smashed by a simple football. Obviously it had never encountered young human boys and their toys before.
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Exploding stars and whatnot are nothing compared to a small child running amok!
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Haha not in a million years….or even several million.
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Brilliant writing, Ali. You build up the suspense perfectly. The events at the end will have me looking at every bauble and ornament in a new light. Perhaps they should all be locked away safely in glass-fronted cabinets! Unreachable.
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Thanks! You never know where these psychotic alien entities might be hiding…
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haha! I wonder if I ever saved the world when I played football indoors 🙂
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Probably 1 in every 5 ornaments you broke was harbouring something sinister 🙂
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That’s what I’m going to start believing. The world should be grateful to me 🙂
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Ah, our unsung heroes…
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Nice twist! I like that the crystal had its own thoughts and evil intentions.
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I think I read too much fantasy. The moment I see a crystal I think to myself, “well, that’ll be a crystal of power, then” 🙂
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I like your little boy stories. You’ve written several and this is another great one. Thank goodness Timmy doesn’t know he saved the world. His family would never hear the end of it!
Ellespeth
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Yes, he’d be banging on about it forever to anyone and everyone. Best he’s kept in the dark 🙂
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Lovely! I hope someday, somehow, Timmy learns just what he did. What a great way to save the world.
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Maybe one day a second entity will come looking for the first and Timmy can sort him out too!
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And Timmy never knew!
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He will live on in blissful ignorance!
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