TINY TUESDAY...(m)
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TINY TUESDAY...(m)
| Mon, 02-04-2002 - 11:38pm |
TINY TUESDAY...(m)
For this week's Tiny Tuesday, try this: Write a short-short, 500 words or less, with these three words, in the order I give them.
aim
babble
cabana (like a small cabin/bathhouse)
Have fun, Sammi

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Tiny Tuesday: Cabana Catastrophe...(m)
Everyone in the small, dark courtroom sat on the edge of their seats, the small fans they all had to deal with the stifling Alabama heat making a whirring sound like tiny little motors.
They all watched with fascination as Prosecutor Amens drilled another round of questions at the dainty Miss Maisy. His cross examination style was well known throughout the south. First was the throat clearing, then the fingering of his black string tie before he went in for the kill. Yep, Prosecutor Amens was a darn good lawyer.
"Now, Miss Maisy, tell me this," the short man with the bulbous nose said in cross examination. "Did you aim to shoot Gilbert Rames?"
"Heck no," she said softly.
"Excuse me?" Amens asked, fingering his tie. "You Honor, can you tell the witness not to babble?"
Judge Landers leaned over the bench and looked at Miss Maisy. His gray bushy eyebrows lifted briefly in appreciation of the view. "Answer the question audibly, please."
"I said no." Maisy said, shaking back her long auburn hair from her face.
"You didn't aim to shoot Gilbert Rames?" Amens asked again.
"If I'd aimed at him, I would've hit him." Laughter filtered throughout the courtroom. Maisy, lavishing the attention, smiled sweetly as she watched the men eye her decolletage.
"Your Honor, make the witness answer the question."
"Miss Maisy, please anwer the question," Judge Landers leaned over the bench again and pointed a beefy finger at her.
"I did, your Honor." She smiled at Judge Landers and turned to him slightly as she crossed one shapely leg over the other, causing her skirt to hike high on her thigh.
"Your Honor, I would like the courts permission to treat Miss Maisy as a hostile witness."
"You think I'm hostile?" Maisy said loudly. Laughter rippled through the courtroom again.
"Order in the court!" Landers slammed the gavel down, his steel gray eyes scanning the courtroom. "Now, Miss Maisy, answer the question. Did you aim to shoot Gilbert Rames?"
"No! If'n I told you once," she jumped up and pointed to Amens, clearly miffed. "I've told you at least five times. I didn't aim to shoot that low-down-two-timing-double-dealing-cheating louse! He was screwing his secretary in my cabana as I swam that day. I went and got my gun and just shot it in the air."
She sat back down and turned to Judge Landers. "The bullet must've richoted off the cabana wall, your Honor. How was I to know that it would lodge in his head?"
Judge Landers returned her smile and then turned to Amens and pointed at him. "You sir, are wasting this court's time with this. Gilbert Rames death was an accident..."
"Your Honor...." Amens began.
"Need I slap contempt of court to your day?" Landers said loudly.
"No, your Honor."
"This case is dismissed!" Landers said as the gavel came down... the end
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I found this interesting and fun with a promise of something more to come. And this sentence: "The babble of the radio wore on as the sun rose in the cloudless sky." is great. You did good, Kid. Sammi
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What a cute and well written story. Thanks for sharing this and can't wait to read more of your writing. Sammi
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I want a copy of that calendar too! LOL. You left us hanging with this one. Please don't wait too long to put up another installment. Good job, Sammi
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