Joan pointed to the spice holder on the table that looked like a tiny shopping cart, ‘This is darling. Where did you get it?’
‘My husband made it, he’s only a foot tall you see so takes it when he does the grocery shopping.’
‘Only a foot tall?’
‘Yes,’ said Sheila. ‘He used to work for a mad scientist who zapped him with a shrink ray.’
‘You should have sued.’
‘We did but Dr Insanity had no money. In the end all we got was a shed full of radioactive super-monkeys.’
‘Typical,’ said Joan and both ladies sipped their tea.
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Based on the prompt from Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for Friday Fictioneers.
29 replies on “Friday Fictioneers: Tiny Lawsuit”
This had me burst out laughing!
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Oh that is magnificent!! “Honey I shrunk the hired help!”
Thanks for sharing this
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hahaha ^^ love how crazy this story is
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Let’s see you work those supermonkeys in to next week’s prompt. Good story 🙂
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Challenge Accepted!
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That was fun. I’d like to see what he can get in the cart when he shops.
janet
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Just saw Oz. You have some of the same kind of elements gone sci fi
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Brilliant theatre of the absurd! Very good, especially the final words!
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Great take! 🙂
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Nice. No big thing a shed full of radioactive monkeys.
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Makes me think of the latest Planet of the Apes movie. You never hear much about the rich mad scientists. Who with so much money could be mad?
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Not sure if this is more scary or funny!
But I guess the doctor has a disclaimer in his name. I’d personally never work for anything or anyone called Insanity!
Lol
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I think they made a great deal, prices for radioactive supermonkey have skyrocketed recently. I’m pretty sure they can get a bottle of growth liquid from the Mad Hatter…
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Wonderful! This really tickled me 🙂
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Well the wife finally got what she wanted a 12 inch prick!
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This is great! Too funny!
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Dear Sean,
You are certifiable. And I mean that as the highest of compliments. 😀 Crisp, concise and funny as the dickens.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Ok I did spit my drink out.. so in a way thank you, that your words made me have such a reaction…on the either side I have to change my top..
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Superb!
Loved it.
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This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time! Loved the radioactive monkeys. I wonder what was in that tea (and where I can get some) 😀
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Thanks for the laughs — the “shed full of radioactive super-monkeys” is a wonderful line! As is the last line — it fit in perfectly. Great stuff!
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This is EXACTLY my kind of story. Awesome, awesome job! Absurd hilarity to the max. I think I’ll share this with all my friends.
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And yet another great chuckle this morning. Loved the matter-of-fact way she talked about her husband’s situation. Great job.
Here’s mine: http://unexpectedpaths.com/friday-fictioneers/doom-and-gloom/
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haha.. an unexpected line of thinking ! great story
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Loved you little story – and the radioactive super-monkeys and Dr Insanity! So much to love!
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fantastically delightful – I love that you focused on the shopping cart!
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What .. a … HOOT! I’m STILL laughing my britches off. THIS is what “originality” is the “spice” of. (pun not intended, but what the hey!).
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The nonchalance of the dialog is hysterical.
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I agree! 😀
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