Maxis_taste Dare #33: PROMPTS
These are the last of my Dare #33 prompts.
Again, this is text only.
Prompts: Lucy Burb, bigfoot
Warning: none
Word Count: 2422 (but it's a fast read)
Mom and Dad,
I really want to come home. This place is just so awful. We have to get dressed to walk to the bathroom. In the dark. At night. There are bugs all over the place and every single one of them has bitten me at least twice. No joke. If you insist on making me stay here (please, come get me!) can you at least send more bug spray. Oh, and candy. Chocolate. They sell it in the commisary but it’s only the really cheap stuff made by the same company that makes those super gross chocolate bunnies grandma used to buy me. It’s just nasty. Which, now that I think about it, is just perfect for this place.
I can’t wait until I’m done serving out this PRISON SENTENCE so I can come home to civilization and GOOD chocolate.
Itchy and annoyed,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
Thank you for the bug spray and the benadryl cream. It’s making this PRISON SENTENCE a tiny bit less horrible. But only a tiny, tiny bit. The chocolate helped more even though it totally melted. But I still ate it. Some of the other girls were jealous of it, I know. But they’re snobs who totally don’t deserve any of the GOOD chocolate I had to BEG to get. Well, except for one girl, Jill. She’s pretty cool. She showed me pics of her family and. . .get this. . her DAD used to be a POLLINATOR. You know, the guys that abduct folks and take them on the ships. My mind nearly imploded when she mentioned it. I acted like a total weirdo and asked her tons of questions. She was cool about it. It’s so not a big deal to her. And her uncles have ALL been abducted (not by her dad, though, he’s totally retired).
I have to go now. We’re going to hike to the lake and go swimming. It’s supposed to be so much nicer than the gross little swimming pool they have here (really, it’s so nasty-they had to fish a dead opossum out of it the other day-there is not enough chlorine on the planet to make me ever get in that water again. EVER!).
Oh, can you send some gum. Jill really likes the kind that has the liquid in the middle (but her parents only send the nasty sugar free junk).
Hugs and thanks,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
Jill says thanks for the gum. She was spazzing over it pretty good. I guess they don’t have the big variety pack in Strangetown. She swapped me homemade brownies for the gum. She said her dad made them, that he bakes all the time and is like a total Betty Crocker. They were super good (no walnuts-Jill says her dad says the only way to ruin a brownie is with walnuts, which is SO the truth, so he NEVER uses them-see, Mom, I’m not the only one who thinks walnuts are HEINOUS!).
The lake was pretty fun but kind of crowded. There’s another camp nearby that goes there too, so all the snobby girls were all worked up over BOYS! Like they’ve never seen a boy before? I mean, we’ve been here for a while but it’s not like it’s been THAT long. I was glad Jill already has a boyfriend so she wasn’t acting stupid like the other girls, all worrying about getting her hair wet and stuff. She even raced me to the water (totally beat me because she CHEATED!) and went right under even though it was FREEZING. But at least there weren’t any diseased vermin floating in it. So gross!
But the best part was the hiking. There’s this one camp leader who’s not a total WARDEN and she took us on a REAL hike, like off the regular boring paths. She was telling us this cool story about some guy who just decided to up and live in the woods. She was trying to play it down, like he was just some old hippy but I’m not stupid. I KNOW what she’s talking about.
Oh, I almost forgot to ask. Jill showed me a letter where her mom and dad BOTH said it would be ok if I visited Strangetown. Do you think I could? I know it might be expensive but you could count it as my total christmas gift. Please?
Please say yes!
Hugs,
Lucy
PS: I need more bug spray. I swear the ones in the woods are starved and I’m their favorite meal.
Mom and Dad,
I was RIGHT! Oh, man, I love being RIGHT!
That kind of cool camp leader was so blowing smoke up our butts with the whole “hippy living in the woods” story. On free day, Jill and I signed out for hiking (they totally make you sign out for hiking and they give you this ankle bracelet to wear so they can track you-see, it IS like a prison!) and took the same paths before. Only we went further than last time and we saw it.
A foot print. A BIG foot print!
I so knew it and I was RIGHT.
Jill took a picture of it for PROOF.
The footprint was going across the path, so we went into the woods a little ways to see if we could find any more proof. I would have kept going but Jill got freaked out. I wasn’t freaked out but I didn’t want to go by myself since Jill had the camera and if she came back without me everyone would have freaked out and thought I was dead or something. So we went back.
We have another free day Thursday. Jill already said she’d hike with me again and her parents sent her fresh batteries for her camera so we are SO ready. She said her uncles are going to freak out when they see the picture of the footprint (if this place wasn’t such a PRISON we could have emailed it to them).
Could you send me some batteries so I can give them to Jill to kind of pay her back for using her camera?
Thanks and hugs,
Lucy
PS: OH, I almost forgot. Size AA. A four pack.
Mom and Dad,
Grrr! This place really does SUCK!
It’s been raining for TWO days so we couldn’t go hiking on free day. And the next free day isn’t until Monday, so now I’m stuck suffering through all the organized activities until I can finally do something FUN!
Jill said thanks for the batteries. Then she took a pic of me when I was sleeping and now she won’t delete it so I threw a dirty sock on her face. She didn’t even flinch. She said having an older brother has made her immune to disgusting underclothes and nothing could ever smell worse than her baby brother’s dirty diapers. Then she took the sock and sniffed it really loud just as this one super snobby girl walked in. She cracks me up.
You didn’t answer me before. I know it’s just because you’re freaked out because it’s all sudden. So I told Jill to have her parents call you so you can talk to them and then you’ll know they’re all responsible like you (so I’ll be super safe, just like here at PRISON).
I can’t wait for Monday.
Hugs,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
BEST. DAY. EVER.
Jill and I have been talking about it every second since it happened. It’s just too freaking crazy to not have to talk about it every second.
But now we have to go BACK, since she totally forgot to take a picture. I can’t really blame her. We were both so stunned and freaked out and excited and all of that that neither of us even thought about the camera for one second. Especially because we know he didn’t see us and we had been writing down every twist and turn we took so we can totally get back there again, no problem.
Now we just have to wait until the next free day. It’s the last one before we have to start doing all the pre-leaving chores (like we’re their slaves? Really, you pay to send me here and I have to do all the work? Not cool). I swear, even if it rains were going back. Jill agrees (and even has an extra poncho I can wear since I forgot mine and there’s no point asking you to send it because it won’t get here in time and really, even if I didn’t have a poncho I’d still go and just get wet, it would totally be worth it).
Crossing my fingers for good weather!
Hugs,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
We met him!
His name is BJ and we met him and he was so nice. He invited us into his burrow (that’s what he called his house-it was just a kind of little hut, not a burrow in the ground like you’d think) and it was so COOL!
We got lucky and it wasn’t rainy so we raced over and signed out. We were the first on the list. We needed the extra time, too, because we got a little lost (the one map got smeared so it was hard to read). But we found him again, right at the little pond where we saw him the first time.
This time he was fishing and he saw us watching him. We weren’t really hiding that well, anyway. Jill stepped on a stick and I kind of tripped which made us both laugh. So neither of us is that good at sneaking around. He totally heard us but didn’t leave. He kept fishing but was watching us and he even smiled at us.
JILL was the one who grabbed my sleeve and walked out to meet him. Later she said she knew he was ok when he smiled at us. She didn’t get an freaky feelings in her gut, so she went with it. My gut never tells me anything useful, just when I’m hungry or have gas.
She went right up to him and introduced herself and then introduced me which was good because I kind of forgot how to talk (it’s kind of embarrassing now that I think about it but at the time I didn’t notice at all and Jill said I didn’t look too weird or anything). I told her it was weird that she just marched right out there and she acted like it was no big deal. She said when you have the family she has (and live where she does) that nothings really that weird or odd anymore. She said she even met a Servo once (but that was a little weird because they only have one great big eye, so she said it felt like she was staring at him and vice versa) and meeting BJ was way less weird than that.
BJ was kind of quiet at first but then he caught this great big fish (it was HUGE!) and then he started talking more and said he was hungry and asked if we were too and then he invited us into his burrow to eat the fish he’d JUST caught.
I was worried it would be kind of gross but it was really good (and I was really hungry because we forgot to bring any real lunch food, we only had one granola bar we shared when we were trying to find the right path).
BJ was really chatty when we ate and asked us about the camp and if we liked it and then I asked him how long he’d been in the forest and how old he was (that was kind of rude, now that I think about it) and he said he’d lived there only a short time because he’d just moved from another forest because too many folks had heard about him and were chasing him around. He said he really liked it in his new place because he could still meet folks sometimes (like me and Jill) but since we were campers we didn’t live there year round so when we all left for the season he got to be alone, which he liked.
I asked him if he ever got lonely and Jill gave me a look like I was being super rude. He didn’t notice that and told us he sometimes does but he’s never really been around other folks a whole lot so he’s not really sure what it is to really be lonely.
Jill and I didn’t even notice what time it was but BJ just kind of knew and told us we’d get in trouble if we didn’t start back. He even told us a better way to go so we’d get back in time and not get in trouble. Of course, he was right and we got back with time to spare (though we did get in trouble a little because we were gone longer than we’re supposed to be, but the cool camp leader was in charge of hiking that day so she let it go-I think she knew what went on and didn’t want to ruin how great it had all been).
OH, and before we left he gave me THE BEST HUG EVER. He picked me right up off the ground and right up over his shoulder and he was laughing and I was laughing and it was so fun. It was like a bear hug, really strong like that, but not rough and it was tickley from all his hair.
Jill asked if she could take his picture and he was nervous at first. But then he smiled at us and said yes but only if we promised not to make copies of it.
When you come to pick me up at Jill’s house, she promised you could see it.
Oh, and thank you like a million times for saying yes. Jill said her gut told her you’d both like her parents and I swear her gut is never wrong. EVER.
I promise to be on my best behavior EVER and be a super good houseguest and all that. Really!
I got the phone card you sent and promise to call you the minute we get to Jill’s house (so you know I’m not dead in the gutter!).
Thank you, thank you, thank you, you’re the best!
Hugs and kisses,
Lucy.
Again, this is text only.
Prompts: Lucy Burb, bigfoot
Warning: none
Word Count: 2422 (but it's a fast read)
Mom and Dad,
I really want to come home. This place is just so awful. We have to get dressed to walk to the bathroom. In the dark. At night. There are bugs all over the place and every single one of them has bitten me at least twice. No joke. If you insist on making me stay here (please, come get me!) can you at least send more bug spray. Oh, and candy. Chocolate. They sell it in the commisary but it’s only the really cheap stuff made by the same company that makes those super gross chocolate bunnies grandma used to buy me. It’s just nasty. Which, now that I think about it, is just perfect for this place.
I can’t wait until I’m done serving out this PRISON SENTENCE so I can come home to civilization and GOOD chocolate.
Itchy and annoyed,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
Thank you for the bug spray and the benadryl cream. It’s making this PRISON SENTENCE a tiny bit less horrible. But only a tiny, tiny bit. The chocolate helped more even though it totally melted. But I still ate it. Some of the other girls were jealous of it, I know. But they’re snobs who totally don’t deserve any of the GOOD chocolate I had to BEG to get. Well, except for one girl, Jill. She’s pretty cool. She showed me pics of her family and. . .get this. . her DAD used to be a POLLINATOR. You know, the guys that abduct folks and take them on the ships. My mind nearly imploded when she mentioned it. I acted like a total weirdo and asked her tons of questions. She was cool about it. It’s so not a big deal to her. And her uncles have ALL been abducted (not by her dad, though, he’s totally retired).
I have to go now. We’re going to hike to the lake and go swimming. It’s supposed to be so much nicer than the gross little swimming pool they have here (really, it’s so nasty-they had to fish a dead opossum out of it the other day-there is not enough chlorine on the planet to make me ever get in that water again. EVER!).
Oh, can you send some gum. Jill really likes the kind that has the liquid in the middle (but her parents only send the nasty sugar free junk).
Hugs and thanks,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
Jill says thanks for the gum. She was spazzing over it pretty good. I guess they don’t have the big variety pack in Strangetown. She swapped me homemade brownies for the gum. She said her dad made them, that he bakes all the time and is like a total Betty Crocker. They were super good (no walnuts-Jill says her dad says the only way to ruin a brownie is with walnuts, which is SO the truth, so he NEVER uses them-see, Mom, I’m not the only one who thinks walnuts are HEINOUS!).
The lake was pretty fun but kind of crowded. There’s another camp nearby that goes there too, so all the snobby girls were all worked up over BOYS! Like they’ve never seen a boy before? I mean, we’ve been here for a while but it’s not like it’s been THAT long. I was glad Jill already has a boyfriend so she wasn’t acting stupid like the other girls, all worrying about getting her hair wet and stuff. She even raced me to the water (totally beat me because she CHEATED!) and went right under even though it was FREEZING. But at least there weren’t any diseased vermin floating in it. So gross!
But the best part was the hiking. There’s this one camp leader who’s not a total WARDEN and she took us on a REAL hike, like off the regular boring paths. She was telling us this cool story about some guy who just decided to up and live in the woods. She was trying to play it down, like he was just some old hippy but I’m not stupid. I KNOW what she’s talking about.
Oh, I almost forgot to ask. Jill showed me a letter where her mom and dad BOTH said it would be ok if I visited Strangetown. Do you think I could? I know it might be expensive but you could count it as my total christmas gift. Please?
Please say yes!
Hugs,
Lucy
PS: I need more bug spray. I swear the ones in the woods are starved and I’m their favorite meal.
Mom and Dad,
I was RIGHT! Oh, man, I love being RIGHT!
That kind of cool camp leader was so blowing smoke up our butts with the whole “hippy living in the woods” story. On free day, Jill and I signed out for hiking (they totally make you sign out for hiking and they give you this ankle bracelet to wear so they can track you-see, it IS like a prison!) and took the same paths before. Only we went further than last time and we saw it.
A foot print. A BIG foot print!
I so knew it and I was RIGHT.
Jill took a picture of it for PROOF.
The footprint was going across the path, so we went into the woods a little ways to see if we could find any more proof. I would have kept going but Jill got freaked out. I wasn’t freaked out but I didn’t want to go by myself since Jill had the camera and if she came back without me everyone would have freaked out and thought I was dead or something. So we went back.
We have another free day Thursday. Jill already said she’d hike with me again and her parents sent her fresh batteries for her camera so we are SO ready. She said her uncles are going to freak out when they see the picture of the footprint (if this place wasn’t such a PRISON we could have emailed it to them).
Could you send me some batteries so I can give them to Jill to kind of pay her back for using her camera?
Thanks and hugs,
Lucy
PS: OH, I almost forgot. Size AA. A four pack.
Mom and Dad,
Grrr! This place really does SUCK!
It’s been raining for TWO days so we couldn’t go hiking on free day. And the next free day isn’t until Monday, so now I’m stuck suffering through all the organized activities until I can finally do something FUN!
Jill said thanks for the batteries. Then she took a pic of me when I was sleeping and now she won’t delete it so I threw a dirty sock on her face. She didn’t even flinch. She said having an older brother has made her immune to disgusting underclothes and nothing could ever smell worse than her baby brother’s dirty diapers. Then she took the sock and sniffed it really loud just as this one super snobby girl walked in. She cracks me up.
You didn’t answer me before. I know it’s just because you’re freaked out because it’s all sudden. So I told Jill to have her parents call you so you can talk to them and then you’ll know they’re all responsible like you (so I’ll be super safe, just like here at PRISON).
I can’t wait for Monday.
Hugs,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
BEST. DAY. EVER.
Jill and I have been talking about it every second since it happened. It’s just too freaking crazy to not have to talk about it every second.
But now we have to go BACK, since she totally forgot to take a picture. I can’t really blame her. We were both so stunned and freaked out and excited and all of that that neither of us even thought about the camera for one second. Especially because we know he didn’t see us and we had been writing down every twist and turn we took so we can totally get back there again, no problem.
Now we just have to wait until the next free day. It’s the last one before we have to start doing all the pre-leaving chores (like we’re their slaves? Really, you pay to send me here and I have to do all the work? Not cool). I swear, even if it rains were going back. Jill agrees (and even has an extra poncho I can wear since I forgot mine and there’s no point asking you to send it because it won’t get here in time and really, even if I didn’t have a poncho I’d still go and just get wet, it would totally be worth it).
Crossing my fingers for good weather!
Hugs,
Lucy
Mom and Dad,
We met him!
His name is BJ and we met him and he was so nice. He invited us into his burrow (that’s what he called his house-it was just a kind of little hut, not a burrow in the ground like you’d think) and it was so COOL!
We got lucky and it wasn’t rainy so we raced over and signed out. We were the first on the list. We needed the extra time, too, because we got a little lost (the one map got smeared so it was hard to read). But we found him again, right at the little pond where we saw him the first time.
This time he was fishing and he saw us watching him. We weren’t really hiding that well, anyway. Jill stepped on a stick and I kind of tripped which made us both laugh. So neither of us is that good at sneaking around. He totally heard us but didn’t leave. He kept fishing but was watching us and he even smiled at us.
JILL was the one who grabbed my sleeve and walked out to meet him. Later she said she knew he was ok when he smiled at us. She didn’t get an freaky feelings in her gut, so she went with it. My gut never tells me anything useful, just when I’m hungry or have gas.
She went right up to him and introduced herself and then introduced me which was good because I kind of forgot how to talk (it’s kind of embarrassing now that I think about it but at the time I didn’t notice at all and Jill said I didn’t look too weird or anything). I told her it was weird that she just marched right out there and she acted like it was no big deal. She said when you have the family she has (and live where she does) that nothings really that weird or odd anymore. She said she even met a Servo once (but that was a little weird because they only have one great big eye, so she said it felt like she was staring at him and vice versa) and meeting BJ was way less weird than that.
BJ was kind of quiet at first but then he caught this great big fish (it was HUGE!) and then he started talking more and said he was hungry and asked if we were too and then he invited us into his burrow to eat the fish he’d JUST caught.
I was worried it would be kind of gross but it was really good (and I was really hungry because we forgot to bring any real lunch food, we only had one granola bar we shared when we were trying to find the right path).
BJ was really chatty when we ate and asked us about the camp and if we liked it and then I asked him how long he’d been in the forest and how old he was (that was kind of rude, now that I think about it) and he said he’d lived there only a short time because he’d just moved from another forest because too many folks had heard about him and were chasing him around. He said he really liked it in his new place because he could still meet folks sometimes (like me and Jill) but since we were campers we didn’t live there year round so when we all left for the season he got to be alone, which he liked.
I asked him if he ever got lonely and Jill gave me a look like I was being super rude. He didn’t notice that and told us he sometimes does but he’s never really been around other folks a whole lot so he’s not really sure what it is to really be lonely.
Jill and I didn’t even notice what time it was but BJ just kind of knew and told us we’d get in trouble if we didn’t start back. He even told us a better way to go so we’d get back in time and not get in trouble. Of course, he was right and we got back with time to spare (though we did get in trouble a little because we were gone longer than we’re supposed to be, but the cool camp leader was in charge of hiking that day so she let it go-I think she knew what went on and didn’t want to ruin how great it had all been).
OH, and before we left he gave me THE BEST HUG EVER. He picked me right up off the ground and right up over his shoulder and he was laughing and I was laughing and it was so fun. It was like a bear hug, really strong like that, but not rough and it was tickley from all his hair.
Jill asked if she could take his picture and he was nervous at first. But then he smiled at us and said yes but only if we promised not to make copies of it.
When you come to pick me up at Jill’s house, she promised you could see it.
Oh, and thank you like a million times for saying yes. Jill said her gut told her you’d both like her parents and I swear her gut is never wrong. EVER.
I promise to be on my best behavior EVER and be a super good houseguest and all that. Really!
I got the phone card you sent and promise to call you the minute we get to Jill’s house (so you know I’m not dead in the gutter!).
Thank you, thank you, thank you, you’re the best!
Hugs and kisses,
Lucy.