Tuesday – Anything Possible – Kreative Kue # 405 by Keith Channing.

~ John W. Howell

In Keith’s words. “Using this photo (below) as inspiration, write a short story, flash fiction, scene, poem; anything, really; even just a caption for the photograph. Either put your offering (or a link to it) in a comment or email it to me at keithchanning@gmail.com before Sunday evening UK time. If you post it on your own blog or site, a link to this page would be appreciated, but please do also mention it in a comment here. Thank you for taking part.”

You can go to Keith’s site and check out the prompt. Here is the link. https://keithchanning.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/kreative-kue-405/

The photo.

The Show by John W. Howell

“Excuse me, waiter.”

“Yes, sir?”

“We ordered wine quite a while ago.”

“Yes, sir, I know, but the show is running long.”

“Show?”

“Yes, sir. Old Babcock and  his Hamburgler show.”

“Hamburgler?”

“I’m sorry, sir. I should explain. You see, Mr. Babcock lives alone. Every year around Halloween, he dresses up like the Hamburgler and puts on a show.”

“What kind of show?”

“Ah. This is where your bottle of wine comes in.”

“I was hoping we’d get there.”

“He selects five bottles of wine from our cellar.”

“That’s a lot to drink.”

“No, he doesn’t drink them all. He has one for himself and then four for the legs of a chair.”

“Legs of a chair?”

“Yes. He balances each leg of a chair on one of the four bottles till all are resting on the wine.”

“Then he sits in the chair and drinks the fifth bottle.”

“No. He then stacks chairs on top of each other with himself on the uppermost chair.”

“Is he nuts?”

“Only a little. Mostly he is very balanced, and people love the performance.”

“So, back to my bottle.”

“Yes, it is one of the bottles holding up a chair.”

“You don’t have another?”

“It was the last.”

“So I wait until the act is over?”

“It won’t be long.”

“How do you know?”

“He’s putting the fifth chair in place now.”

“And.”

“Every  year, he crashes while installing the fifth chai—Oops, there he goes.”

“What happened?”

“He was caught by a guy with a cigar. I’ll be right back.”

“Where you going?”

“To get your wine. He won’t be needing it anymore.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah, he’s had enough.”

 

 

58 thoughts on “Tuesday – Anything Possible – Kreative Kue # 405 by Keith Channing.”

  8. And to think I was going for the wine assisted launch vehicle. Jump just right and all four corks pop at once and you have take off. If it were not done for science it would be alcohol abuse.

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  9. Here’s a crazy thought… how about they use the cheap grocery store wine for the trick? It’s abuse of good wine, I say!
    Excellent take on this crazy picture, John 🙂

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      1. Oh, lol. I remember going for a two hour trip to the city with my family as a kid and the highlight was stopping at McDonalds on the way home 🙂
        We were totally upset with Dad when he missed our hints and didn’t stop!

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