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Night of the Living Debt!

Date: Tue, 10/30/2007 - 10:12
Submitted by Frogpatch on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 10:12
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It was the night before Halloween and I was sleeping soundly in my own warm bed when suddenly I rolled over and fell out with a thud! I awoke to find myself on a dismal dark wet deserted city street!
“What place is this?” I asked myself. “I must be dreaming.”
I picked myself up and began to walk cautiously toward the only light I could see about two blocks away past the piled up trash and darkened buildings. As I passed an old dumpster, there, in a doorway, sat an old woman with a tattered old trench coat and a scarf tied around her head and under her chin.
“Where am I?” I asked.
“Need some cash?” she replied.
“I just want to know where I am. I am not asking for money?”
“You will be!” she cackled. “You will be.” She began to laugh insanely and as she looked up at me her eyes glowed with little green dollar signs and her skin turned the color and texture of green mold and she began to give off a putrid odor that could only come from hell. “Your favorite color, Frog?” She continued to laugh out loud.

I walked away almost running down the street toward the light. I approached an intersection where a dim street lamp still barely glowed. Just then my cell phone rang.
“Hello!”
“Need some cash?” It was her and that laugh. How did she get this number?
“No!” I shouted.
“Oh no?” she squawked. “Turn around!”
I spun around and walking towards me was at least two dozen men with blank stares wearing cheap polyester leisure suits and bad toupees. They were almost chanting over and over. “He owes us money. Get his money. Pay up now.” I began to run down the street and around the corner. Face to face with the old woman again.
“Cash? Need cash?”
I pushed her out of the way and kept running until I saw another group of them coming from the other direction,
“We can smell your cash.” One of them yelled. “Cash!”
I turned to run the other way and I realized I was boxed in. They drew closer and closer. I spotted an alley and ran down as fast as I could. I could see a train stopped at the end. My lungs felt as if they were going to burst. As I got closer I could hear the conductor yelling “Board!’
I ran and stretched to reach and just as the train was pulling out I grabbed the handle as the conductor shouted. “All aboard for Cash Call!”
It was too late! The train was moving too fast for me to jump off.

tb be continued......


Oh, frog! I'm dying here! :lol: So very awesome! I'm anticipating the rest of the story! Loving it! You are the master, frog! :wink:


Submitted by cannr on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 20:06

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When we left off yesterday I was trying to escape from the payday loan witch and the collection zombies after falling out of bed and landing on a deserted city street. I ran down a dark alley to escape to find a train just leaving the station. Pulling my self aboard I realized that I had jumped on the Cash Call train and it was too late to jump off. Now the Night of the Living Debt continues..

I climbed the short stairs into the old train car and sat in the last seat in one of the middle cars. I could see a few heads in the seats in front of me and in the next car also. I could see the conductor, a very tall gaunt man in uniform, approaching each person and heading in my direction. He finally came to my seat.
???????Checking account and routing number please.??????? He demanded politely.
???????Excuse me.??????? I said.
???????I need your checking account and routing number.??????? He became a little stern.
??????? I am not giving that to you.??????? I said firmly.
???????That is up to you.??????? he replied. ???????But, until you do you will never get off the Cash Call train.??????? He went on to the next car.
Meanwhile I sat still trying to rest after getting winded. I figured that the train had to stop eventually and I would just get off. I started to doze. It could have been minutes or maybe a half an hour when I heard a voice from the car behind me.
???????Next stop. Pay Day Plaza.???????
Then the conductor came into my car.
???????Next stop. Pay day plaza.???????
The train slowed to a whooshing halt. Through the window I saw people at counters, similar to the car rentals at airports. Each one had a sign. One said Pay Day OK another said Pay Day Select and yet another said Pay Day Today. There was no one at any of the counters besides the person in attendance. Suddenly from across the floor a small army of those leisure suit zombies came staggering toward the train. They boarded the car in front of me. Some of them pulled a woman from her seat and took her off the train and the others started to enter my car.
One looked directly at me. He was so close I could see his rotten teeth as he said in a monotone voice.???????Cash! I can smell your cash.??????? I got up and ran through the car behind me. I pushed past a couple of them in that car and ran into the next. I was shocked by what I saw. There were a dozen men and women hanging upside down by their. The men had their pockets turned inside out and the womens handbags had been dumped on the floor. I had to keep running as much as I wanted to help. I ran into the dining car.
The dining car was empty except for a young dark haired woman sitting I a booth alone.
I yelled to her.
???????Get up and run! We have to get off this train now!???????
???????But I want to try the fish with the sauce buerre blanc. Someone told me it was excellent here.???????
???????Get up now!??????? I insisted.
???????I will get it to go!???????
???????No you won????????t, and get rid of that volleyball.??????? I demanded
By then the leisure suit goons were entering the dining car. The woman jumped up, hit the one with the bright blue suit in the head with the ball and she was out of that car before his wig hit the floor. He bent over to pick it up causing a pile up of polyester. I caught up with her at the end of the train. By then the train was starting to move.
???????Now what do we do???????? the woman asked looking at the moving tracks below.
Before I could answer, a riding mower pulling a lawn cart was racing along side the train at an amazing rate of speed. It was being driven buy a pug dog with a weiner dog riding shotgun.
???????Jump into the car!??????? the dachshund shouted.
The pug added, ???????First tell us what state you live in, how much you borrowed and ???????. Just kidding! Jump!???????
???????There is a bridge coming up,??????? the dachshund shouted. ???????Jump now!???????
????????The woman jumped and landed safely in the cart and now it was my turn. All 225 pounds of me was going to jump from a train to a cart at 40 MPH while the bridge was only seconds away.
???????Well here goes!???????

To be continued??????????????.


Submitted by Frogpatch on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 10:44

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FROG! :D The pug dog and the weiner dog to the rescue! I am sooooooooo into this! Please, please, please turn the page and keep on reading to me!!!!!


Submitted by cannr on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 12:12

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What an imagination! READ ME MORE OF THE STORY!!!! :D


Submitted by cannr on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 18:49

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He writes it in 15 minutes on his lunch break? It would take me 5 years to type that! LOL! I don't have a very good imagination!


Submitted by cannr on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 10:16

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Yesterday my new friend and I were escaping form the cash call train. She had made a safe jump from the train and I was about to attempt the same thing, leaping to a moving lawn mower cart at 40 MPH. Let us now return to our story???????

It is amazing how many somersaults you can do when you hit the ground at 40 MPH. When I finally came to a halt and looked up I saw they were coming back to pick me up. Fortunately except for some bumps and bruises I was OK. I climbed up into the cart and we were off. The pug took us down a bumpy dirt road for a couple of miles. There were grassy meadows on both sides of the road that we could see in the early morning light. In spots there were bushes covered with berries.
??????? Let????????s stop and gather some, ??????? my traveling companion suggested.
???????Do not eat the berries??????? the wiener dog turned and replied.
???????Why not????????she asked. ???????They look like big, luscious red raspberries to me.???????
???????They taste that way too but they are not what they seem.??????? The dog replied. ???????They are planted by the Debbitz and are filled with truth serum.???????
???????The Debbitz? Who are they???????? I asked.
???????They are identity thieves. If you eat that fruit and they see you, they will come and get all your personal information and then they become you. They can even look like you. Or anyone they choose for that matter. They are watching us right now.???????
???????I don????????t see anyone.??????? The young woman said,
???????You can????????t see them because they live underground. In their real state they are only a couple of feet tall. Sort of troll like.???????
We drove a little further until we stopped upon a small hilltop.
???????You can stay here and wait for Morning to come.??????? The pug said. ???????It is high ground so you can see anyone approaching. Do not trust anyone no matter who they say they are. ???????Trust no one except Morning.???????
???????But it is already morning.??????? I said.
???????Just wait!??????? the pug said and they both drove off.
???????What are we waiting for???????? I asked. ???????Morning? I don????????t get it???????
???????I don????????t know but I am a little nervous out here.??????? She replied as she looked though her bag. ???????I am also hungry. I know I have a granola bar in here somewhere.???????
Just then a small light appeared against the cloudy horizon. It looked at first to be a star peaking through the clouds but it came closer and closer until it stopped right in front of us. It slowly took the form of a statuesque dark haired woman.
???????I am Morning,??????? she said. ???????I was summoned to help you. I can only take one of you at a time. You!??????? she pointed at my new friend. ???????Put your arms around my neck and your legs around my waist.???????
She was so tall she had to bend way down for her to reach. Suddenly there appeared giant transluscent amber wings like a butterfly.
???????I will be back??????? she said to me as she glided effortlessly from the hilltop.

To be continued????????????????????????????.


Submitted by Frogpatch on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 11:47

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Ohhhh.......I swear to you, I got CHILLS when I read the part about them "being us", "turning into us", "watching us"...... OMG. I can't stand it! I've got this whole movie going in my mind and frog keeps pushing the "PAUSE" button! MORE, MORE, MORE!!! :D


Submitted by cannr on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 16:26

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Wow! Thanks! I was writing something at home that I started a while ago and then got a little discouraged and let it go. Now you have me all fired up to get it done. I have a novel in my head that I have been spinning around for a couple of years now and I can't start that until I get the other little thing done. Thanks very much for the encouragement. I am slammed at work today and may not get a chance to add to it until the weekend. But I will try.


Submitted by Frogpatch on Fri, 11/02/2007 - 06:04

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Here ya go!



We left off with Morning flying off with the volleyball girl and leaving me behind with hopes of her keeping her promise to return,


I watched as they flew higher and higher and further away. I thought to myself that it must be really frightening to be up there. Maybe I will try walking in that direction instead. Looking off toward the direction they went, I could see what looked like swampland. I decided to sit it out.
Now the clouds had cleared and there was no place to get out of the increasingly hot sun. I was getting very thirsty. I guess about an hour or so had past since they flew off. I sat there in the grass and continued to wait. I heard a noise off in the distance. It was a creaky rattling sound with hoof beats. Down the dirt road I could see something coming from the same direction as we arrived. As it got closer I could make out that it was a horse drawn wagon. Then I could see that there was a man, woman and a small boy riding in the seat and back was empty. The wagon came up the hill and stopped on the road about 50 feet from where I sat. I got up and walked over. The couple looked as if they were right out of an old western. He was wearing suspenders and a straw hat and she was in a floral print dress and a bonnet. The boy who I guessed to be about ten wore suspenders also.
???????Mornin????????!??????? the man said.
???????Good Morning??????? said his wife.
???????Good Morning.??????? I replied.
???????What are you doin???????? out here al by yourself????????? the man asked. ???????Horse throw ya????????
???????No, I am waiting for someone.???????
???????How long ya been waitin????????
???????About an hour.???????
???????Where ya headin????????
???????I don????????t know????????
???????The closest town is Hitchcock. I would be glad to let you ride in the back.???????
???????Where am I???????? I asked.
???????You are about 50 miles northwest of Tulsa.??????? he replied.
I started to think about the warning from the pug not to trust anyone but Morning.
???????No thanks! I????????ll wait!???????
The man and woman started looking a little uneasy and I was not sure why when suddenly there was the light of Morning behind me. Her loud voice screamed.
???????Go away you creatures of darkness. Go now!???????
The man, the woman, the boy and even the horse suddenly shrank and transformed into little gargoyle like creatures. They snarled and drooled and ran down the hill suddenly just vanishing into the ground.
???????Come it is time to go.??????? she said.
In seconds we were soaring high in the clouds. My back was to the ground so I could not look down which kept me at ease. I was comfortably being held by and holding on to this lovely creature. I was really starting to enjoy this trip when she spoke some of her few words.
???????When I say let go, you must let go. If you don????????t you will get hurt???????
I could see tree tops now on the side of me and we were going slower.
???????Let go now!???????
I did and I landed in a big pile of hay.
She landed near by, walked over to me and said..
???????I can????????t land when I am carrying someone.??????? I hope I did not scare you.???????
???????The pug said I could trust you and I did.??????? I answered.
???????Follow that road for a mile or so and you will come to a house. There you will find safety, food and drink. Your friend is there as are others who will accompany you.
???????Thank you!??????? I said. She turned back to light and floated away.
As I walked down the road I entered some woods with a marsh on one side. I began to hear music in the distance. Zydeco music! I guess this isn????????t Oklahoma.

To be continued????????????????????????????.


Submitted by Frogpatch on Fri, 11/02/2007 - 10:54

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