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Weirdcrap Stories
The Pheasant
"The what?" Kristin asked. "The lawn gnomes. Like in
my story." "That was just a story, Lindsey,
it wasn't real," I reminded her. "But it was!" "Sure, Lindsey..." I
replied. "It really was!! You wanna
see pictures!?" she asked, reaching for her wallet. "Okay... I thought it was
just a story." "Well, obviously it isn't." "Fine then." "Fine." "Quit your stupid fighting!"
Kristin yelled. "Jeez! We were just kidding,"
Lindsey replied. "Ahh!" "What?! What?!" we all
asked. "Somebody tapped me on the
shoulder!" "I did." "Oh, Martine, whew. Did you
figure out how to kill the pheasant?" Lindsey immediately asked. "As a matter of fact, I did." "Really? How?" "Easy, really. All we have
to do is..." So she got into this long, technical explanation, but seeing the blank look on our faces, she
said "Aw, heck with it, all I need is some-" "Hey, who's that?" I
interrupted. "Where?" "Over there, he's holding
this laser thing." "It's Matt Nelson," replied
Lindsey. "The nuke ray exists? The
one capable of generating 2x the force of a black hole? The implode, explode, implode one? The one with the little
protection shield thingy?" I asked, amazed. "Apparently." Lindsey
replied. "Woah, what nuke ray?"
Martine asked. "It's something from typing,
Martine. But YOU wouldn't understand since you took Word Processing like you're better than us," Lindsey answered. "Typing's stupid," she
defensively said. "Quit fighting!" I yelled.
"Hey, typing isn't stupid. Maybe if you're a rich little brat that's had a computer since she was five..." "You're just jealous." "You're right." "Shut up! He's firing it!"
The laser went off. The energy from those 2 AA's lit up the whole hallway and we saw Mr. Schwartz's desk and computer
implode, explode and implode again. But in the nick of time, the pheasant flew off. Before he could shoot again,
the pheasant had flown over his head and out the door. Matt pursued it and caught up with it in front of Mr. Heinen's
room. He didn't miss that time and the pheasant disintegrated, leaving nothing but a pile of ashes on the floor.
There was silence for a minute and then: "Cool! I need one of those
things!" Martine and Lindsey simultaneously exclaimed. "No, way,Lindsey, you didn't believe me!" "Aww." And that was the end of the pheasant.
It didn't seem to have any permanent effects on anyone, we were all a bit dazed, though. And even Julia was normal
(for her), except for the fact that she joined rodeo and started watching The X files. I found out that Lindsey
was acting so weird because of the unusual alignment of a few planets, I forgot which ones, I'm not really into
that kind of stuff. The power came on pretty quickly after the pheasant was destroyed, and we got plowed out soon
after. School was canceled for the rest of the day and the next, so things were pretty much normal when we came
back. Except for Mr. Schwartz. The loss of the pheasant had pushed him over the edge, and he quit his job and left
town, supposedly to move to some tiny, Spanish-speaking nation. I'm surprised there weren't more rumors, but Mr.
Schwartz, and the amazing events of that October day just seemed to disappear from the collective consciousness
of the student body until it became doubtful that it had ever even taken place. But it still made one heck of a
story!
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