Bad Fiction Contest

Here is the first entry we have received for the 5th Annual Bad Fiction Contest. Please to enjoy and don't forget to submit your own bad fiction... TODAY! Voting ends June 12th!

Jupiter’s Daydream
by Ange F.

Like the celestial orb she was named after, Charon’s image danced and perambulated across my mind as I laid in bed trying to fall asleep after a day when I danced and perambulated across the busy diner floor that I call my job. Charon like so many of my friends was a lawyer. I had known her since we were at the elementary school together as young children. Her desk was next to mine.

If I only knew how close her body would be next to mine when we got older?

I awoke to the anxious sun winking it’s cheerful morning message of pride like a beacon of light pulsating in the Sky. I scrambled across the floor of my loft stumbling on the Greek yoghurt containers and PBR cans that lay assembled at my feet like dead soldiers in the killing fields awaiting there orders. A ladybug caught my eye and I stubbed my toe on the IKEA television stand. I would be late for work again.

I was to meet Charon at the library after my shift. I had remembered to bring my long overdue books. If Terry Fox was the Olympic champion of running, than I was the Olympics of overdue books.

To passerbys I must of looked like I was lost in thought. But I was only sidetracked by my internal recollections. As a child I had longer to be like Terry Fox, the canadian juggernaut had perambulated his way across a nation’s hearts as he criss-crossed the nation on his amputated leg. As a child, I thought of blind people and their heightened senses as a result of their deprived one – sight. What has Terry heightened on account of his missing limb? Did roses sound more lovely in the fading tendrils of the summer light? Did fish swim faster in the black asphault of the icy lagoon?

As I turned the corner I espied Charon gently rotating around like some kind of lunar satellite and I knew then what it would feel like as my heart was swatted out of the air by the meaty paw of the mighty polar bear as it hunted for salmon on the banks of the Nile.

“Hey, chica!” she intoned.

…don’t blow this. Can I take your order? Burger… fries… Be right back with that.

I was distracted momentarily by the loud screech of tires on pavement. SCREEEEEEEECH! EEEEEEEEEEERK!

I looked up to see A troupe of tennagers on the prowl.

Oh! Hi. It’s been a long time… Charon, right?

Charon raised and then lowered her eyebrows. “Hey, chica. Let’s get down to the library and return these books.” Charon always returned her books on time. After we returned the books we stopped by the sporting goods store and bought some racquetball balls and made a date to play requetball later that day. I showed up but she didn’t.

No. It’s on the house. What? I get off at eight o’clock. Sure. Why not? That was six years ago.

I never saw her again.