Wednesday, April 26, 2006

scratch fiction topic tag: police blotter

alert reader and sometime commenter Graymalkin suggested
this aggregate police blotter
as a scratch fiction topic tag.

king mongo strikes first. “The Jiggler” could flat bench six hundred and fifty-five pounds. (4/7)
no damn doctor's keeping chemical billy down. the monkey was moved. (4/8)
my turn. monkey suit. (4/14)
though I was done, but I couldn't pass this one up. a white male, covered in lotion, was throwing things. (4/14)
chemical billy returns to tell us about the man on the porch. (4/14)
psychedelicate girl brings us a knight in shining armor. (4/17)
bones clues us in to some strange goings-on on Transit Road. (4/20)
mysfit awakens to bring us the story of the mailbox gang. (4/24)
mysfit inspired Jayaprakash Satyamurthy to drop a nice place to take a nap. (4/25)

BEST TAG EVER: this tag has more repsonses than any other tag in scratch fiction history.


some samples:

A health aide at an Eggertsville address said she believed her patient had just died but when emergency personnel arrived, the aide refused to let them in, claiming it was a "mistake."

A Cheektowaga child whose head was stuck in the railing on his front steps was freed using petroleum jelly.

A Lake Avenue resident received a suspicious package. It turned out to be Easter candy.

A Bussendorfer Road resident said a large wolf-like dog was in his backyard killing chickens.

A woman claiming to be an upstairs neighbor called the police and said her neighbor had been assaulted by her son. Upon arrival to the home, officers observed what appeared to be blood on the side of the victim's mouth, chin and clothing. The victim stated her son had hit her during an argument. On closer examination the officers noticed that the blood was actually lipstick. Officers spoke with her son and he stated his mother was always trying to get him in trouble with the police.


Before the beginning or after the ending of your story, please include the specific police blotter item, that we may all be edified.

I normally refrain from editorializing on the tags, but since this was suggested by someone other than me, I feel at liberty to say that that this vein runs deep, yea, deep as our very souls. If skillfully digged, I feel that it may just hold the resolutions to all human mysteries.

9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

from KM - Shit, I missed your editorializing at the end. I plumb forgot to illuminate the dark corners of the soul in this one. Dang.

13:29  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Er, this one: My Thingy.

P.S. I was responding to the "Cheetowga" incident mentioned in your OP, but that should be obvious :)

P.P.S. Peepy is one of the children of the Jellyby family in Dickens' Bleak House; when he first appears, he has his head stuck in a railing :)

13:33  
Blogger Chemical Billy said...

No human mysteries here, monkey. Just a quiet little story.

You'd think being on opiates would send me on some sort of grand mental/hallucinatory adventure. Nope. Just kind of flattens everything out.

19:56  
Blogger Chemical Billy said...

Thanks for the deep tag, monkey. I've gone back to the well.

18:24  
Blogger Psychedelicate Girl said...

I had to do this because from where I'm sitting Monkey0's armor was awfully shiny this week.
Hello Cleveland!

18:34  
Blogger Bones said...

There's some weird stuff happening on Transit Road. Here's part one of two.

14:05  
Blogger mysfit said...

ok so i'm a bit behind the times - but if you're bored, ride your bike into my chaos and meet the mailbox gang

22:16  
Blogger monkey 0 said...

mysfit - you are not behind the times. to steal a line from Gandolf, scratch fiction is never late. nor is it early. it arrives precisely when it means to.

17:38  
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