Post by Occupant on May 22, 2014 20:18:09 GMT -5
Back by popular demand...alright, True asked for it, but it really is a fun game where you get to use your imagination.
Let's see how many emoticons we can tie into a member created tale.
Each time you post you must add to the story in a way that can be represented by an emoticon.
The emoticon can be one found here at the Library or from elsewhere but should be similar in style to the emoticons here at the Library.
Do not use an emoticon that has already be used.
A Smiley Story
Let's see how many emoticons we can tie into a member created tale.
Each time you post you must add to the story in a way that can be represented by an emoticon.
The emoticon can be one found here at the Library or from elsewhere but should be similar in style to the emoticons here at the Library.
Do not use an emoticon that has already be used.
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It was Saturday, the best day of the week because he and Sally would spend the whole day together. 
So Jack hurried through his morning routine, 
then called Sally. 
Jack was immediately fearful for Sally's well being so he started calling all their friends. 
But no one had heard from her. Jack waited and hoped he'd hear from Sally before he would have to call the police. 
then anger set in. How dare someone take his girl! 
Jack had been duped into believing his sweet, dear Sally, was a nurse at the local hospital. 
But the diary reveals otherwise. Jack had been so infatuated with Sally, only seeing their relationship through rose colored glasses. 
and lover to notorious Guido 
the city's most wanted gangster. 
How could his sweet Sally be a member of a notorious crime family? 
, Ricotta pulled out a Glock and took control of the situation. After some lengthy discussion between the two men 
and Jack explained his involvement with Sally/Sister Kate, Ricotta had important information that changed Jack's attitude. He told Jack while it was true Sally was Sister Kate she was not Guido's lover, she was his maid. 
And the only reason she was working for him was because she was pregnant 
with Jack's baby. 
The weather was turning frightful even for Jack's hometown near Hobokken, NJ. When the weather is good, there is no better place to be than on the 'Jersy shore. In the summer, that can be most days. 
But when they are trying to predict snow fall, well the weather guys can't seem to get it right. 
For that reason Jack doesn't bother with the radio for any predictions, he decides to use his tried and true practice for estimating the temperature and snowfall. He steps ut of the car and walks to the nearest light post. He always comes within a degree or two for the temperature and an inch or so for snow. 
He calculates it's currently 27º. With the snow already falling and wind increasing, and the time so close to night fall, Jack decides this may be a blizzard. He postpones his rescue mission until daylight. Even knowing the delay may make a bad situation worse, he decides to wait. Back in the car, he drives to one of his favorite joints, Momma Lucinda's Spaghetti With Meatballs Eatery and Storm Door Company. Jack is looking forward to his favorite meal... 
it includes a taste of the grape. 
They enjoyed each other so much, he thought they knew each other so well. He never even thought for a moment Sally was Sister Kate regardless if she was Guido's lover or maid. Can he believe Sally really is having his baby? She was very capable of deceiving him. He spent most of the night pacing and debating the possibility it wasn't his kid she was having. 
Jack dug into his delicious spaghetti dinner, but the stress he had been under made it impossible to digest his meal. Poor jack ran but he didn't quite make it to the mens room... 
and apologized to the poor busboy who had to clean up the mess...
and by the time he arrived home, he was chilled to the bone. 
But wait...who is that standing shivering in the cold on his doorstep...
could it be...oh please let it be Sally!!! 
Jack was in shock and found he could barely swallow let alone call out to the woman standing in his doorway. Less than 30 feet from him, stood his deceased wife, the mother to his two children, Simone. She looked exactly as she did that beautiful fall day 11 years ago when she and the kids left for their weekly trip to the grocery store. 
Jack found out he had been in a hit and run accident and had been in a coma for 14 months!
She seemed to know him, but for the life of him, Jack couldn't remember ever seeing her before. 
"Oh my darling, I ama your bridea, the mother ofa youa two children. you calla me your Bambino! I ama Guido's little half sister, Simone. You musta remember Guido, he isa your besta frienda! My Goda! You can nota forget Guido! If youa forget your besta friend, I think hea go to the roofatop, and jumpa anda kill himself!" 
Jack asks Simone where is Guido now? She tells him to look outside...he barely makes it out of bed. He looks down eleven stories to see Guido standing in the snow covered courtyard. 'Sally had a slight Italian accent', he thought. After a few seconds, 
Guido looks up to Jack's window. He waves a hello. (Jack continues to stare down at Guido and asks Simone why she has a French name but talks with an Italian accent. She explains that her mother was French and her father Italian. She says she was raised in Italy along with her half brother Guido, and seven other siblings. This may or may not be important.) Jack doesn't wave back. He gauges the distance to the bed, maybe 4 steps, decides to make a leap for it 
and lands safely with his face in the pillow. 
they are beginning to all look alike, indistinguishable one from the other. He tells himself to calm down. He does a mental review of the last session he had with the hospital psychiatrist. 
This doctor has only been somewhat successful at piecing together the events of the past 14 months of Jack's life. At the time, Jack was only capable of providing sketchy bits of information because in mid sentence he would pass out. When the fainting episodes became more frequent, the doctors decided to put him in a medically induced coma. 
That was fourteen months ago. 
a girl I'm supposed to be engaged to... she was either kidnapped by, or works for, the notorious gangster, Guido. 
"Guido and I are supposed to be best friends but I have no recollection of even sharing a meal with him. 
However, there still is the possibility she is also Jack's wife-to-be, Sally. In that case, it would just be adultery-to-be, an acceptable behavior in this day and time. 
For one thing, Jack didn't trust him. Ricotta was know liar among the gangsters. He could have made the maid story up, hoping Jack would help him find Guido's hide-out. Knowing he can't trust Ricotta to tell the truth, Jack really can't remove Sister-Kate the gang maw, from the equation. He doesn't know why his head is aching. 
He wishes it would stop. But he continues to struggle to keep hearsay from clouding actual events...trying to align only what he knows to be actually true. This is hard to do.
. One thing he knows, it is the face of a beautiful woman. (Why not?) The image quickly fades. What he is trying to remember now is the woman standing in his doorway sans the kids, a memory from over a year ago, a woman he thought was his deceased wife, Simone.
Another Simone. Or is she this Simone...the one standing in his hospital doorway right now? 
Can they be the same Simone? Isn't there some resemblance? Another thought came into his troubled head, Jack has always been respectful of women.
Jack believes they were near the World Trade Center when the buildings were destroyed by terrorists on 9/11. The thought finally creeps into his addled brain, "Good God! Maybe Simone and the kids are still alive!" Jack is being tortured by the confusion of so many women in his life. Something the parish priest had warned him about. 
Jack's head is spinning. Where is Simone? Any Simone...he realizes he no longer has a clear memory of Simone From Years Ago or the Simone from Just Minutes Ago. All these beautiful women...so beautiful...their faces passing before his eyes...his bleary, drug laden eyes... 
and he imagines he sees someone, a beautiful woman, hovering outside his window...gliding...she's so beautiful...
and having kids 
just to see if they could keep changing your perception of reality. They did it because the Ruskies they're trying to cut a deal with demanded proof that the drugs and reconditioning process works." 
But wait a minute, he cried, you were the one who told me Sally was at a safe house owned by Guido...you sent me there the night of the accident. I don't understand. 
