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Few experiences are as odd as walking to the field next to the cemetery at 1:30 in the morning, carrying a mouse in an otherwise empty ice-cream bucket.
I went downstairs to wash my coveralls that look like Sherry's, because they have to be washed separately, and when I opened the basement door, the mouse was just sitting in the washroom. It apparently came down through the hole in the wall there. So I went and got Dad up and he came down and it was still there. He put the bucket over it and I had to hold it in place while he went to find a piece of thick cardboard to slip under there. We then did what was mentioned in the first paragraph.
The mouse was running around and around in there while we walked. I dunno what happened to it in the end. When we let it out of the bucket, it flopped over. I dunno whether it fainted from fright, was suddenly paralyzed, or died. But we left a few Cheerios with it, so if it isn't dead, it'll have those to eat.
Walking back through the cemetery, we found two real, lit Jack-O-Lanterns, which seems dangerous to me, and another, fake Jack-O-Lantern with a battery-powered strobe light thing in it. That was interesting. And looking toward the east side of the cemetery, it was completely dark. No lights or anything. Rather appropriately creepy and morbid, with a certain haunting beauty all through it.
I've worked more on my blurb for 30_Nights. I wanted to experiment with Gin and Sherry interaction post-Good Enough for You, so this oneshot has a lot of that. Gin finally tells Sherry about the scars on his back, as they sit up in the middle of the night wondering if Vodka is going to live. So far I haven't decided what happened to Vodka in the first place, or if it's even relevant to the piece. Though I'll make sure that it's clear that he'll be okay by the oneshot's end.
I went downstairs to wash my coveralls that look like Sherry's, because they have to be washed separately, and when I opened the basement door, the mouse was just sitting in the washroom. It apparently came down through the hole in the wall there. So I went and got Dad up and he came down and it was still there. He put the bucket over it and I had to hold it in place while he went to find a piece of thick cardboard to slip under there. We then did what was mentioned in the first paragraph.
The mouse was running around and around in there while we walked. I dunno what happened to it in the end. When we let it out of the bucket, it flopped over. I dunno whether it fainted from fright, was suddenly paralyzed, or died. But we left a few Cheerios with it, so if it isn't dead, it'll have those to eat.
Walking back through the cemetery, we found two real, lit Jack-O-Lanterns, which seems dangerous to me, and another, fake Jack-O-Lantern with a battery-powered strobe light thing in it. That was interesting. And looking toward the east side of the cemetery, it was completely dark. No lights or anything. Rather appropriately creepy and morbid, with a certain haunting beauty all through it.
I've worked more on my blurb for 30_Nights. I wanted to experiment with Gin and Sherry interaction post-Good Enough for You, so this oneshot has a lot of that. Gin finally tells Sherry about the scars on his back, as they sit up in the middle of the night wondering if Vodka is going to live. So far I haven't decided what happened to Vodka in the first place, or if it's even relevant to the piece. Though I'll make sure that it's clear that he'll be okay by the oneshot's end.
