♢ Dead Like Me: Pocket Change (The Parlor Trick Remix)
♢ [ George Lass, Mason | G | 150 words ]
When she isn’t looking he practices, practices, practices.
Original story: Pocket Change by argyleheir, 100 words.
Remix author: trascendenza
Pocket Change (The Parlor Trick Remix)
When she isn’t looking he practices, practices, practices, the silver gleam of the quarters teetering precariously over the surface of his scabbed knuckles.
He loses them left and right, though, in sidewalk cracks and doorstops, to sneaky little brats who snatch them right off his hand when he’s not looking. They shower off him like a snake shedding metallic, multi-toned scales.
“Fancy a fountain visit?” He asks her when he’s run clean out. She rolls her eyes, but accompanies him, dips her hands in the water up to her wrists. He snatches up all the quarters when she’s busy with the pennies, pockets them and smiles a dismissive smile when she asks what he’s going to do with his share of the loot.
Someday, he promises himself, he’ll be good enough to get a coin over more than one knuckle. Someday, he’ll be good enough to impress even sour-faced Georgie.
When she isn’t looking he practices, practices, practices.
Original story: Pocket Change by argyleheir, 100 words.
Remix author: trascendenza
Pocket Change (The Parlor Trick Remix)
When she isn’t looking he practices, practices, practices, the silver gleam of the quarters teetering precariously over the surface of his scabbed knuckles.
He loses them left and right, though, in sidewalk cracks and doorstops, to sneaky little brats who snatch them right off his hand when he’s not looking. They shower off him like a snake shedding metallic, multi-toned scales.
“Fancy a fountain visit?” He asks her when he’s run clean out. She rolls her eyes, but accompanies him, dips her hands in the water up to her wrists. He snatches up all the quarters when she’s busy with the pennies, pockets them and smiles a dismissive smile when she asks what he’s going to do with his share of the loot.
Someday, he promises himself, he’ll be good enough to get a coin over more than one knuckle. Someday, he’ll be good enough to impress even sour-faced Georgie.