Valley of the Trolley Dollies

excluding the title, exactly 500 words. And it killed me to take out three great gags. But that’s what it’s all about, folks. Enjoy..

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What’s it all about? Read here.

edit: What a Plank!!! I wrote this as an 800 word piece and edited it down to 500 so it would fit the Friday 500 brief. And now I discover that the (self-set) brief was a Friday 400. D’oh! Ah well, it may be a little over, but it’s still exactly 500 words (excluding the title) and a lot of fun.

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My Blog mentor (hello blog daddy), Bob over at bobzyeruncle has been publishing a series of short pieces every Tuesday. The process has come to be know as Tuesday 200 (nothing can come in over 200 words).

Having never pretended to have an original idea in my head, I decided that I, too, would write short pieces of bloggable fiction regularly. Some of you will know I already write larger pieces, but these things (like Bob’s) can be about characters I’d never dream of writing a novel about; they can be funnier or darker or less plot driven or, frankly, duller than some of the things I’d spend time developing. Equally, they might actually open some doors, get me thinking about some ideas that have lain in the drawer for a while. Maybe even turn into full fledged real life stories in their own right. One difference: The word limit. I want nothing more than 400 words. I’m just not that good at editing (surprise!). So it’s more of a Friday 400.
Hey - I’ve always been a bit too wordy. So sue me!!

Anyways, without further ado, here’s the first piece

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