In celebration of the 33rd week of the Trifecta Writing Challenge, the challenge is to write three stories between 33 and 333 words each using the three prompts provided for each story. This story is in response to Prompt One: “What I tell you three times is true.” by Lewis Carroll.
Sarah Bubbles Creates the Universe
“If I type it three times, it’s a lie or if I type it three times, it’s a truth?” Sarah Bubbles’ face turned into a question mark when she was thinking. Her eyebrows formed the top arc, a crease on the right side of her face traced itself to her long nose and her mouth puckered into the dot underneath.
You might as well know up front that Sarah Bubbles was a woman of limited intelligence who tipped the scales like the sinking Titanic — causing her to experience low self-esteem.
And frankly, this combination of traits didn’t help the universe Sarah Bubbles was given free rein to type into existence on her magic keyboard.
The whole thing was ironic, really, but Sarah Bubbles didn’t know that. She thought ironic meant coincidence.
Sarah tried again for the millionth time to repeat exactly what she had done three weeks ago to create handsome Howard Huffle.
She was sure she had just typed boyfriend three times. That was all, and he had just popped into existence — ready-made with a name and a background and a personality!
“Hi there! I’m handsome Howard Huffle!” What’s your name, beautiful?”
Of course, Sarah was so caught off guard and smitten with her surprise creation, she had awkwardly tried to strike a coquettish pose and, in the process, accidentally maneuvered her elbow on the delete key and that was the end of handsome Howard Huffle.
Since then, she had feverishly tried recreating Howard by typing boyfriend three times over and over –but managed to produce nothing but dopes and doozies.
Not a single one was capable of holding a candle to Howard Huffle. In fact, not a single one was capable of holding a candle period.
In an act of supreme frustration, Sarah Bubbles squeezed her eyes shut, scrunched her face into a question mark, and hurled her magic keyboard.
When she opened her eyes, there stood handsome Howard Huffle as plain as the question mark on Sarah Bubbles’ face.
Sarah Bubbles Creates the Universe will be continued tomorrow utilizing Prompt Two.
Until next time . . . I love you
I LOVE this story!! I can’t wait to read the other 2 you have in store. Perhaps Howard Huffle will make an appearance in one of them. Like a spin off…
Ha! Looking forward to seeing what Sarah and Howard do next. Somehow, I’m not seeing this going well.
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Oh I am looking forward to what happens next, this can go either way for her, good or bad, it will be interesting.
Yes Mags! I too wonder how it will end.
Great story! I’m happy she got her man in the end. Wouldn’t it be great if life was that easy, if it just required typing things into a magic keyboard? Your stories are so original, Linda, that I REALLY feel like you could be an author of children’s books or teen books. And do I need to mention that your illustrations would be perfect, too. I’m so serious. My kids would have had a collection of Linda Vernon books on the shelf, for sure. : )
You know, Jackie and I were just talking about that yesterday. She thought I should write young adult or chidren’s books too! And now today the first thing I see is your comment about the same thing! I’m going to do it, Lisa!! I love writing these stories and what am I waiting for? I just want you to know how much I appreciate your always taking the time to read and comment on my writing.
You are so inspiring! !
WOOHOO!!! Amazon link please.
Don’t worry El Guapo, you’ll be the first to link!
It just seems like a no brainer, and that’s coming from a girl with very little brain! Seriously, it’s so obvious that you need to write young adult/ kids books. Did you ever hear of a series called Lemony Snicket? It’s the type of thing I can picture you creating. I just know this is your calling!
Linda, I so look forward to your posts, they always make me laugh. I should thank you for entertaining ME!!!
Oh thank you Lisa. You always make me feel so good!! And yesterday, after I read your comment, I was thinking I should get some young adult books to read. Well, I stopped off at the thrift store and there was a little collection of young adult books all together on the shelf waiting there just for me. And of course I bought them all! And one of them was Lemony Snicket!! If that’s not a sign I don’t know what is! HA!
Oops! Looks like I put my comment in the wrong spot. I’m down below Guapo! oy!
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that…
Sigh.
Hahahahahhahahahaha!!!
So! She typed boyfriend? or just ??? at the end! He’s a mystery I can tell. Good thing she undeleted him.
It certainly would seem that way, but of course nothing ever turns out like it’s suppose too! HA!
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CTRL+Z, Sarah!!!
You know, in case she deletes him again…
I actually just read a really neat book with something like this as the storyline, lol. Very cool!
Well it does lend itself to not having to stick to any rules like laws of physics and boring stuff like that! LOL
Of course! Although, I’m pretty glad it doesn’t actually work……….
Thank you El Guapo! Sarah completely forgot about CTRL Z! That’s going to change her life!
That was a frolicking good time! And this was my favorite line: She thought ironic meant coincidence. Because of your awesome set up I literally laughed out loud.
Well I won’t be typing boyfriend three times (hubby wouldn’t understand.) I wish the delete button would work for the messes my men (young and old) of the house make
You are really on to something Jannat! We could fix them at the DNA level with a magic keyboard!
I saw Sarah standing on the bridge.
I typed Jump!! three times.
She’s still there.
Bummer. : (
Haha! You’ll never get rid of my pesky characters that easily Mark . . . bwahahaha!
Fun, fun, fun!
On the Lewis Carrol note, one of my senior pupils came up to me a few weeks back and told me that instead of quoting Shakespeare’s Hamlet, she accidentally quoted the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ film! So funny. I told her it would probably cheer up the marker!