“Smile, you're on Candid Camera!”
Big Brother* #quote
Tomorrow Jessica is coming over so that'll be fun. Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
Time-Out
“Sarah, time out now!” Mommy sent me into the corner of
the room for doing something bad. I wanted to yell back and tell her
I didn't have to have a time-out. I knew I did something wrong,
time-out's were just wrong. I hated them. I wanted to yell at
her that I should never have a time out...but I couldn't get
the...get the...was there a word for this thing I'm thinking of?
“Courage,” something spooky said.
“Who are you?” I whispered.
“Down here little Sarah” I saw an teeny-weeny spider. I wanted
to scream, but you don't say anything during time-outs. Was I already
in trouble for whispering? “Would you like time-outs to go away
forever? Never to get in trouble for taking the cookies from the
pantry and eating them before dinner like today or anything else? I
can offer you a wonderful deal for a little something unimportant
called a soul.”
“Are you Santa?” I asked the spider.
The spider didn't say anything for a few seconds then talked again,
“No, no I'm not. I really don't see what that has to do with
anything.”
I squished the spider. Mommy said that anybody that knows things
about you for no reason is a bad stranger. This spider knew how I got
in trouble and I didn't know why. So I got rid of him like you should
any bad bugs.
Years passed and when I remembered this day I think I squished a
demon. That taught me to talk to my children about stranger danger.
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