A story challenge on friday was:
Radio challenge:
Song line. "Doctor Doctor, give me the news."
Now write a story.
Here is my submission. Just for fun:
I nervously click my pen as I wait. It usually drove everyone nuts when I would do it but today I am alone, in a cold sterile room in nothing but a thin paper gown.
The door opens and a man with black hair and a salt and pepper beard walks in slowly, his eyes glued to the chart in his hands.
"Doctor..." I say... and wait. I clear my throat loudly, perhaps a little rudely.
"Doctor, give me the news!"
He looks up at me and smiles broadly. I don't actually want to hear him talk I realize. I nervously tell a joke to calm myself. It's my doctor's office tradition. It's my one act stand up comedy routine.
"Can we cure this with penicillin or do we just have to chop it off?" I say with a grimace.
He gave me the double blink of the humorless soul and looks down at his chart momentarily confused.
"Well, Mrs. Palmer I do have news."
I hold my breath...
"Triplets!"
By Leah Banicki
3 comments:
Love it! Creative! So is this a contest, winner takes all?
fun! was it suppose to be under a certain amount of words?
It was supposed to be a paragraph or two. It's not a contest just a challenge. I needed a break from editing. :)
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