Good Morning, Sunshine! (822 hits)
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Submitted by kL (View user info) at 2006-10-27 21:19:53 EDT
"Good morning, sunshine!" Luca's father sang out, towering over the bed and banging on a pot lid. The mass of flesh and blanket had a tremor, and a head slowly rose, "Wha-what?" Luca gasped, groggily. "It's eight-thirty: The perfect time for a young man to rise up and greet the day!" Luca had not felt so full of hatred in a long while.
He continued to shield under the cover from his father's verbal bombardments, until, after having the blanket pulled off of him, and facing the irritation of having the lights flicked off and on repeatedly, he gave up, and got up.
Twitching violently, eyebrows dancing spasmodically with broken REM waves, he staggered past his grinning father to the washroom. He began to brush his teeth; doing a circle of bristles on each chicklet. He pictured an axe handle protruding from his father's fat, bald, shiny head, and laughed.
He spat. Blood spots splattered the sink. "Severe gum damage," he thought. He stretched a stray shirt over his frame and trod upstairs.
Squinty eyes surveyed the scene, illuminated by 100 Watt bulbs. His sister, humpbacked by bright pink backpack, haggling for a ride to school.
"The bus is always so full of annoying people," she squealed, "And if I get a ride to school, then I can wear my new mini-skirt." Luca counted on his fingers, and then in his head, "She's fucking twelve," he thought, "I have to get out of this zoo." He swung out the front door, kicked his heels, and was gone.
He hopped on the downtown bus and swallowed several grams of mushrooms. "I hope these mushrooms are magick," he thought. Then he mentally kicked himself for thinking of spelling "magic" with a "k".
"Oh, no, you DIDN'T!" a loud voice sounded from the back of the bus. Luca's head snapped back. All he saw was the usual assortment of poor people, old people, and angsty teenagers. He turned slowly back to the front, still suspicious. Was it the drugs? No one else seemed to be bothered by the voice. No, they wouldn't have taken effect yet.
"Oh, god, BABY!" This time Luca's quick reflexes revealed the culprit. It was a middle-aged, presumably homeless, evidently sex deprived, and obviously unstable black man. He sat in the back corner of the bus, and there was a long row of unoccupied seats beside him. He possessed large lips that would smack when he finished talking. And then keep smacking for awhile after that.
Having appeased his curiosity, Luca again faced the front. He sat for a moment, deciding whether to crack a book, or the window, when he realized he was being watched. A small girl with larger-than-life glasses was shamelessly peering at him from her seat in the front. She was completely twisted in her seat, mouth agape.
Luca furrowed his brows in her general direction, and opened his book as she averted her gaze. She shyly looked back and her eyes opened wide when she saw the book Luca was reading. She shuffled through her bag and emerged holding her own book. "The Holy Bible" She looked at the cover of her book, then at the identical front of Luca's. After a moment of self-deliberation, she strode over the where Luca was sitting.
He looked almost happy now. "He must be finding solace in the Lord, our Savior, Jesus Christ," she thought. "Hi, is this seat taken?" she asked. She had heard that line in many movies.
"Aaaah!?!" said Luca. A terrifying multifocal bug appeared in front of him, then -- whew! The bug quickly transmogrified into the sweet familiar visage of Stephanie, from "Full House".
Seeing the girl start, and begin to move away, Luca tried to salvage the situation, "Hey, sorry about that, Steph. You just startled me a bit there." He flashed a winning smile. The girl dubiously sunk into the seat beside him.
"Hi, I'm Josie. What's your name?"
Luca narrowed his eyes into razor-sharp slits, "Why is the lying to me," he wondered.
"Okay, then... my name is LUCA!" he replied, sticking out his tongue and throwing his head back, staring out the upside-down window. The pine trees were drilling into the ground, all the while terrorizing the pedestrians with their lavender tentacles. "What is the matter with you?" Josie said. Swinging his head back to face her, Luca spat, "How rude!" and delivered a straight-palm to her nose.
The blood started flowing immediately, and Luca burst into laughter. He climbed over Josie's blood-soaked lap and began twirling down the aisle. The bus driver tried to ignore the dancing Luca and concentrate on the road, merely motioning for him to sit down. Luca craned his neck down, blocking the driver's vision and viciously boxed his ears, yelling, "HOW RUDE!"
The bus driver took his hands off the wheel instinctively to hold his stinging ears. In that moment, Luca, laughing maniacally, turned the wheel hard right, and swung himself out through the open driver's side window. His barrel-roll landing coincided with the metal-mangling roll of the bus into oncoming traffic.
The only difference was that Luca took off running homeward bound, for new days and new adventures, all the while humming the "Knight Rider" theme, while the bus and all of it's riders did none of those things ever again.
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Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2007-01-12 02:11:27 EST (#)
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hot_pocket > my streak
Submitted by hot_pocket (user info) at 2007-01-12 01:35:49 EST (#)
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plus one only because my mom used to say 'good morning sunshine' when i was little
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2006-11-01 03:53:14 EST (#)
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Whoa, such good responses.
Submitted by DonkeyOnTheEdge (user info) at 2006-10-30 06:49:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Interesting.
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2006-10-29 16:39:35 EST (#)
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Strange, but interesting. A good read with some good lines. I particularly liked: "Then he mentally kicked himself for thinking of spelling "magic" with a "k"."
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-10-29 16:24:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
great stuff!
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2006-10-28 12:00:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ajanssen (user info) at 2006-10-27 21:55:36 (#)
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Nicely done amidst a sea of shit posts
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-10-28 11:26:30 EDT (#)
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Made me laugh
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-10-28 06:14:01 EDT (#)
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A good read.
Submitted by frankthebear (user info) at 2006-10-28 05:58:43 EDT (#)
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I wish I had some shrooms. it would make these long nights at work a lot more interesting!
Submitted by Allyson (user info) at 2006-10-28 01:04:07 EDT (#)
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:)
Submitted by LongestPants (user info) at 2006-10-27 23:49:15 EDT (#)
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Nicely done.
Submitted by tammy (user info) at 2006-10-27 22:52:58 EDT (#)
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n'bad
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2006-10-27 22:41:48 EDT (#)
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Luca narrowed his eyes into razor-sharp slits, "Why is the lying to me," he wondered.
FUCK TYPO
damn u "t" i'd say it's close enough to the "s" that i will forgive myself.
*sulks*
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2006-10-27 22:23:31 EDT (#)
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Thanks, LoveChildren.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-10-27 21:57:36 EDT (#)
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Just say no to public transportation.
Submitted by ajanssen (user info) at 2006-10-27 21:55:36 EDT (#)
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Nicely done amidst a sea of shit posts
Submitted by GREEEN (user info) at 2006-10-27 21:54:19 EDT (#)
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rog that