‘WELL THEN,’ HE SAID, TURNING OFF THE LIGHT, ‘SWEET DREAMS, LITTLE ONE.’
‘NIGHT NIGHT, DADDY,’ AMY MURMURED, ALREADY FALLING ASLEEP. HE PULLED THE DOOR HALF-CLOSED AND THEN STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN THE DIM LIGHT, JUST LISTENING TO HER BREATHE. EVERY DAY IS A GIFT, HE THOUGHT. EVERY DAY AND EVERY SILENT MOMENT OF THE NIGHTTIME. THEN, STEPPING LIGHTLY ACROSS THE HALLWAY, HE WENT TO HIS BED AND SLEPT THE SLEEP OF A HAPPY MAN.
I was delighted when I saw the heading "caps lock key". Finally, a write-badly-well cliche! Time to use the condescending tone on Mr. Stickley ...
ReplyDeleteBut you had to make even this look good, didn't you? I couldn't stop myself from chuckling :)
Ouch, my ears are hurting.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite caps-lock moment comes from a bad, but amusing piece of Harry Potter fanfiction, where in the middle of a perfectly normal conversations on the train, suddenly Harry says, "OH MY GOD HOGWARTS, WE'RE HERE," and then Hermione says, "We should get changed," and then the chapter ends.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's better in context...
Hearing aids all round.
ReplyDelete:-)
Billy Mays! I've missed you! :P
ReplyDeleteWHAT'S THE PROBLEM? I DON'T UNDERSTAND?
ReplyDeleteI couldn't read the story. I was squinting too hard to protect my eardrums.
ReplyDeleteI am dying to know what happened to Mr Wolfowitz!
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is DEATH telling a bedtime story. :)
ReplyDeleteWe could make shirts:
ReplyDeleteEVERY DAY IS A GIFT
Perhaps with a picture of someone pointing at you menacingly, just to make sure you understand. Maybe even, on the back:
AND EVERY SILENT MOMENT OF THE NIGHTTIME.
I can't help but hear this in the voice of Optimus Prime.
ReplyDeleteDEATH HAS THE COURTESY TO USE SMALL CAPS.
ReplyDeleteThis is how I live my life
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