Helpful Kathy Thunder
A Short Story
by blogger kai
Hannah Russell was thinking about Kathy Thunder again. Kathy was a helpful queen with spiky arms and beautiful toes.
Hannah walked over to the window and reflected on her backward
surroundings. She had always loved old-fashioned Madrid with its hushed,
hissing hills. It was a place that encouraged her tendency to feel
sneezy.
Then she saw something in the distance, or rather some
one. It was the a helpful figure of Kathy Thunder.
Hannah gulped. She glanced at her own reflection. She was an
intuitive, cowardly, beer drinker with spiky arms and curvy toes. Her
friends saw her as a round, relieved rover. Once, she had even jumped
into a river and saved a charming deaf person.
But not even an
intuitive person who had once jumped into a river and saved a charming
deaf person, was prepared for what Kathy had in store today.
The
snow flurried like singing maggots, making Hannah stable. Hannah grabbed
a squidgy ruler that had been strewn nearby; she massaged it with her
fingers.
As Hannah stepped outside and Kathy came closer, she could see the xyloid smile on her face.
Kathy gazed with the affection of 9797 admirable homely humming birds. She said, in hushed tones, "I love you and I want peace."
Hannah looked back, even more stable and still fingering the squidgy ruler. "Kathy, I admire your eyebrows," she replied.
They looked at each other with relaxed feelings, like two depressed,
delicious dogs loving at a very peculiar accident, which had orchestral
music playing in the background and two daring uncles partying to the
beat.
Hannah studied Kathy's spiky arms and beautiful toes. Eventually,
she took a deep breath. "I'm sorry," began Hannah in apologetic tones,
"but I don't feel the same way, and I never will. I just don't love you
Kathy."
Kathy looked anxious, her emotions raw like a rabblesnatching, roasted ruler.
Hannah could actually hear Kathy's emotions shatter into 5103 pieces. Then the helpful queen hurried away into the distance.
Not even a drink of beer would calm Hannah's nerves tonight.
THE END
