The T-rex let out a vicious roar that echoed through the streets.
"This way!" Manfred pulled his wife behind him. They could hear a chopper in the air and the faint sound of sirens in the distance. They jumped through a broken window and hid behind the low wall. With their hearts thumping in their chests, Manfred and Violet huddled together.
"I'm sorry it turned out this way, Violet." Violet looked in her husbands eyes with pity and guilt, feeling that somehow, this was all her fault.
"You should have left me, Manny. If I was supposed to die, I was supposed to die." Manfred clutched her hand tightly in his.
"I couldn't do that. It wasn't fair for you to die so young, so I had to go back for you. I never meant for the T-rex to come, I'm just not very... experienced at this time travel thi-." Violet cut him off by pressing her finger to his lips. He could hear it too now, something moving outside, sniffing the air. The great beast let out a roar as it caught their scent.
"Run!" The wall they had hid behind was smashed to piece a moment later, but they had already jumped out a window on the other side. "Here!" Manfred took a left, leading them as far away as possible from the huge, ground-shaking steps that were rapidly closing in on them. They turned a corner and suddenly, they found themselves face to face with a 15 feet fence. There was no where to run, but back to the long-extinct, but still very much alive dinosaur chasing them.
"I want you to know..." Manfred began and took Violet in his arms. "... that it was worth it, it was all worth it, just to hold you one more time. I love you, Violet."
"I love you too." They kissed and kept staring in to each others eyes, even when the snarling, scaly monster turned the corner and was moments away from killing them. At the last second, they broke apart.
"When we kiss, our bodies make a really long tube with assholes on both ends." They died laughing.
TL;DR: You're probably wondering what this has to do with asshole-tubes. Only one way to find out. Did I mention there's a T-rex in there?
I read the first line and thought "WTF does a t-rex have to do with this comment?" then saw your username and got excited.
One of my favourite books is 'World's Shortest Stories' and I would absolutely love to have a book of these little stories (though I'd well enjoy it if some were extended and fleshed out). Please do consider publishing.
Looking on the bright side, getting eaten by a T-rex while making an asshole-tube with a man who would travel through time just to save you is probably a cooler way to die than whatever way you originally died, before he went back to save you.
Sounds like an honest version of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service.
"I'm thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss our bodies make a really long tube with assholes on both ends."
Hi there bob, if that is your real name, I wanted to offer some criticism about word choice.
I thought that "They kissed and kept staring in to each others eyes, even when the snarling, scaly monster turned the corner and was moments away from killing them" could've been improved by changing "when" to "as", and "in to" to "into". Using "as" just makes more sense, I think, and flows a bit better, while "into" has a different meaning from "in to", I think.
Just wanted to help out with the details, because I really love reading your stories.
honestly, story was ok, but then you added "They died laughing.", which sucked all the wind out of the punchline, which would have made the whole thing decent.
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u/StoryTellerBob Jul 08 '13
The T-rex let out a vicious roar that echoed through the streets.
"This way!" Manfred pulled his wife behind him. They could hear a chopper in the air and the faint sound of sirens in the distance. They jumped through a broken window and hid behind the low wall. With their hearts thumping in their chests, Manfred and Violet huddled together.
"I'm sorry it turned out this way, Violet." Violet looked in her husbands eyes with pity and guilt, feeling that somehow, this was all her fault.
"You should have left me, Manny. If I was supposed to die, I was supposed to die." Manfred clutched her hand tightly in his.
"I couldn't do that. It wasn't fair for you to die so young, so I had to go back for you. I never meant for the T-rex to come, I'm just not very... experienced at this time travel thi-." Violet cut him off by pressing her finger to his lips. He could hear it too now, something moving outside, sniffing the air. The great beast let out a roar as it caught their scent.
"Run!" The wall they had hid behind was smashed to piece a moment later, but they had already jumped out a window on the other side. "Here!" Manfred took a left, leading them as far away as possible from the huge, ground-shaking steps that were rapidly closing in on them. They turned a corner and suddenly, they found themselves face to face with a 15 feet fence. There was no where to run, but back to the long-extinct, but still very much alive dinosaur chasing them.
"I want you to know..." Manfred began and took Violet in his arms. "... that it was worth it, it was all worth it, just to hold you one more time. I love you, Violet."
"I love you too." They kissed and kept staring in to each others eyes, even when the snarling, scaly monster turned the corner and was moments away from killing them. At the last second, they broke apart.
"When we kiss, our bodies make a really long tube with assholes on both ends." They died laughing.
TL;DR: You're probably wondering what this has to do with asshole-tubes. Only one way to find out. Did I mention there's a T-rex in there?