Thursday, September 17, 2009

55 in Fear

It permeated the room.

Curling and twisting

as if it had a mind of its own,

leaving nothing

but destruction in its wake.

Children ran screaming.

Adults cringed in fear

as nausea overtook them.

Alone, I stood before the beast.

“Please,” I pleaded.

“Stop feeding the dog table scraps.

You know it makes him fart.”


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20 comments:

Green-Eyed Momster said...

I used to feed our dog "human" food and Hubby was ready to get rid of him. We have him on some food that agrees with our noses and him so we'll keep him. :)

Love this post!

myrtle beached whale said...

My dog, Skooter, is a farting machine. I think he takes great pride in it.

Tall Kay said...

Very funny 55! I have a girl dog who doesn't fart...maybe it's because I don't give her people food. The vet said it's sooo bad for them.

anthonynorth said...

A great atmosphere to this one :-)
Nicely done.

Anonymous said...

Loved it Monkey Man ~ needed a good laugh this morning. Thank you for providing it.

My 55 is done and posted here.

Have a great weekend.

Chef Kar

PhilipH said...

It's too easy to always point to the dog!

(I thought you were describing cigar smoke to start with. Succinct and clever story)

big Jenn said...

And I'll let you ride bitch! Great 55,LOL! jeNN

ToBlog today said...

I love it! : )

the walking man said...

I love good fart stories. This one was no dog.

Hootin Anni said...

Oops....oops...another one just came over the room!!!! Poor dog!!

My 55 is posted...Elvis LIVES! Come join me if you can. And as always, scroll down below my Show n Tell Friday.

You'll find it HERE

G-Man said...

A dog fart is much better than a dog log I guess.
Excellent 55 MM..
Thanks for visiting, thanks for playing, and have a Kick-Ass Week-End....G

clean and crazy said...

hee, hee, hee, hee i hate dog farts!! great 55, mines up too.

Dr.John said...

Great 55 with a surprise ending.
I loved it.

Mine is posted

HERE.

hope said...

I'm just glad my 2 Labs can't read...because they'd probably challenge your dog to a contest!

Nice job...have a great weekend...well, after you open the windows. ;)

Enchanted Oak said...

What a good sense of scene-setting and timing you have! Re: dog farts: I also do the pleading re: don't feed the dogs table scraps! But does my better half listen? NO. Thus cometh the farts.

♥ Boomer ♥ said...

Oh, this is a great 55!!!! As you know, mine is HERE

Lulda Casadaga said...

I live with 2 dogs and a husband! No gas shortage at my house...SMELLY 55...if I do say so! :D

Monkey Man said...

You guys are killing me. I post some great romantic stuff, some really dark shit, odd slices of life, but what gets you all in a silly dither is a post on daog farts. Don't encourage me.

Lou said...

When I was a kid, we had a Boston Terrier. THAT dog could clear a room. All Boston's have some horrid digestive thing going on, they fart like crazy. Thanks for the memories, MM!

CJ said...

That made me laugh. We used to have dogs when I was a kid, but I just realized that our cats never fart ---or maybe they are polite and do it when we aren't in the room.