This month's
Words for Wednesday prompts are supplied by
River over here. This week's prompts are:
chips, herd, clamped, walk, over, cheese.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Fiction: Spirit in the TypewriterWhile he was crossing the street, a car slammed into Stanley and left him with a broken leg and some broken fingers.
A month later, he resumed his work as a typist. But his fingers clamped up whenever he pressed the typewriter keys. While changing the ribbon, he glanced at the yellow smily sticker on the corner of the typewriter which his wife had stuck there when he first brought it home. She insisted it needed something to cheer him on while he worked. Eight month later, after his writing career failed, she left him for a lawyer. He had tried rubbing it and using solutions but the sticker wouldn't come off.
He took a break and strolled his neighborhood. But walking with crutches was tiring so he returned home shortly. All three manuscripts had been typed and neatly stacked on his table beside the typewriter. He checked his entire apartment but couldn't figure out how that happened. There was an empty box with Freddy's Pizza Place in his trash but he had not eaten any pizza. But he gave the manuscripts to his clients, got paid and didn't think about it.
For three months, the manuscripts got done and he never witnessed it. He was sure no one broke into his apartment and he didn't subconsciously typed them.
On the fourth month, he stayed by the typewriter with five manuscripts and waited. For two days, he didn't leave the typewriter except to use the bathroom. Then on the third day, he fell asleep and when he woke up in the morning, the five manuscripts were typed and stacked and beside it were an empty box with Freddy's Pizza Place and a coffee mug.
