“Stripes are
very slimming.”
Betsy Ross* #quote
Today I watched America's Got Talent #AGT with my family, we used a
TV recorder to watch it a day later. The lighting person they hired
is terrible and makes it really hard to see. Flood lights might look
good when you're there but they don't look good for us at home eh? I
hope they get a better lighting person next season. Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
A Batty Shopper
Edward's Everything Emporium had anything a person could imagine.
When young employee Thomas looked down the aisles it seemed the shop
extended on forever and the building was bigger on the inside than
the outside. The place had five floors upward and he was allowed five
floors downward but not into the basement. Though Thomas always felt
that the store went much deeper than that. He asked a veteran
employee about all the odd traits of the store. Including the odd
whispers he thought he heard in the night and how some things seemed
to just pick themselves up behind his back though he just attributed
to other employees getting extra hours or the mess was never there in
the first place.
“It'll hit you when the time comes,” the veteran told him. When
he said this to Thomas the boss laughed from some far off distance.
The usual laugh he did while running his fingers through his long
beard. Besides the beard the thing Thomas noticed most about his boss
was his obnoxious dark blue suit.
A large man in black robes with pale white skin approached the
counter. He didn't speak a word and simply placed twenty boxes of
sunscreen and a casket in front of Thomas. Like he did with every set
of items before Thomas ringed them up. He'd seen stranger in the
Emporium but never remembered a casket section. He figured it lie
somewhere in the store's long aisles.
After paying the customer turned into a bat and carried in the items
away with a strength beyond what that little body should have. Thomas
looked at the bat puzzled as he remembered the weight of the casket
as he bagged it in the massive Everything Emporium Every-Size brand
expandable bags.
As the veteran employee said it did hit him: what kind of place the
Emporium was and how it worked. He started to think of more strange
happenings he didn't think to closely of before. Perhaps that strange
cloaked hairy man yesterday was the wolf man before transforming? Who
else did he not notice and what merchandise did he not look close
enough at?
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