planet_x_one ([personal profile] planet_x_one) wrote2014-01-11 03:37 pm

Rainy Morning

Carl was chewing on a microwaved breakfast croissant and watching the news. It was raining outside, and when he turned his head towards the window, he saw the back of man standing in the alleyway behind his apartment, urinating out a word on a brick wall. When the man zipped up his pants and walked away, Carl saw the letters: PENUS.

It was near time to leave for work but he didn't like the rain or cold. He sat in front of the TV in a union suit that hadn't been washed for months. He put it on every night and fell asleep on the carpet to Law & Order reruns. When he finished eating, he tightly crossed his arms and pressed them over his knees; the newscaster was saying something about a bus overturning in another part of the city.

He got up and took off the union suit, leaving it in a pile on the floor. He was going to take a shower but the phone rang.

    'Hello?'
    'Carl, it's Terry. Check this out. We gotta go to Hollywood right away and pitch this idea.'
    'Terry, it's eight in the morning.'
    'I know, but check this out. Remember Macaulay Culkin? His career's dead right? So we get him this cherry script for a total comeback roll. He's the same kid from Home Alone but now its like years later and he's forty and he's strung out and the same guys break into his apartment. They tie him up and they just beat him and fuck him for the entire movie, but the surprise is he's totally into it.'
    'So Joe Pesci and the other guy torture and sodomize a willing MacCauley Culkin for one hundred minutes? Hold on, let me get Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the line.'
    'I'm serious. The thing is the Culkin guy is so into it that he out-kinks the break-in guys. They end up leaving at the end because they're so freaked out by how perverted the whole scene got. Joe Pesci is like covered in bukkake when he walks out the door.'
    'Terry...'
    'But wait the best part is you know the poster for the first movie? The one where the kid is slapping his face with his two hands? Well in the new version it's not hands but two cocks on the sides of his head.'
    'Terry, I have to go now. Talk to you later.'
    'Alright. Are you coming down to the bar?'
    'I haven't been to the bar in a year.'

Carl hung up. He waited a few seconds and then dialed work and told his supervisor he was coming down with something and wouldn't be in, probably for the rest of the week. He decided, after he said this, that he wouldn't be coming back to work at all.

He hung up the phone again. All this time he had been standing in the room naked. There was enough money saved for a few months of food and rent. After that, he didn't know.

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[identity profile] miss-october.livejournal.com 2014-01-12 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That was disturbing, funny, and depressing all at the same time.

[identity profile] planet-x-zero.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess that's not bad for 300-400 words.