Paragrapher (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} paragrapher) wrote,@ 2008-12-23 15:56:00 |
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Christmas Luck
So the fall semester's over, and I'm back. Many things to update you about, but first, let me say that I've finally read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted, and it has some of the most horrifying notions I've ever read. Ever. In an afterward, Chuck takes glee is recounting how many people have fainted during his readings of the chapter "Guts." That's the one that did it for me, too. If you get shocked by nothing: this will shock you, and worry you, and make you petrified to go in a swimming pool.
Christmas Luck
Augie stood on the steps Christmas morning, holding back tears as his daughter ran down the stairs. She was six, and had no idea that Augie had nothing to put under their plastic Christmas tree. Augie thought Christmas was saved when he heard about a sure thing at the track. He’d borrow money from a loan shark, put it on the sure thing, double it, pay the loan shark back and have enough to get his girl everything she wanted. But the sure thing came in fifth. So now Augie had two weeks to come up with $5600. And his car had died. And the cat ran away. And worst of all, his daughter didn’t have any presents. Augie watched her scamper into the living room, gasp, and they say “What is it, Daddy?” Augie pounded down the stairs, and saw her holding a toaster-sized wrapped gift. Who delivered this? Who saved her Christmas? His daughter pulled off the wrapping paper, found a brown cardboard box, ripped that open, and screamed. Inside was their cat, dead. A note was stapled to the cat. Augie’s repayment schedule was now shortened.
So the fall semester's over, and I'm back. Many things to update you about, but first, let me say that I've finally read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted, and it has some of the most horrifying notions I've ever read. Ever. In an afterward, Chuck takes glee is recounting how many people have fainted during his readings of the chapter "Guts." That's the one that did it for me, too. If you get shocked by nothing: this will shock you, and worry you, and make you petrified to go in a swimming pool.
Christmas Luck
Augie stood on the steps Christmas morning, holding back tears as his daughter ran down the stairs. She was six, and had no idea that Augie had nothing to put under their plastic Christmas tree. Augie thought Christmas was saved when he heard about a sure thing at the track. He’d borrow money from a loan shark, put it on the sure thing, double it, pay the loan shark back and have enough to get his girl everything she wanted. But the sure thing came in fifth. So now Augie had two weeks to come up with $5600. And his car had died. And the cat ran away. And worst of all, his daughter didn’t have any presents. Augie watched her scamper into the living room, gasp, and they say “What is it, Daddy?” Augie pounded down the stairs, and saw her holding a toaster-sized wrapped gift. Who delivered this? Who saved her Christmas? His daughter pulled off the wrapping paper, found a brown cardboard box, ripped that open, and screamed. Inside was their cat, dead. A note was stapled to the cat. Augie’s repayment schedule was now shortened.
