Thursday, February 10, 2005


Stacey had a shrunken boy in a blue balloon. All the cool girls had one these days. It was a new voodoo spell that spread through the high schools and girl cliques like a combination of wildfire and flash flood, burning some, washing away others. Fun things could be done with the boys. You could inflate or deflate their personal space, tie the balloon to a string, bounce it around, or even pop it. That was not good for the boy, as his atoms would then scatter in the wind. Many girls tied the balloon to the foot of their bed and drove the boy crazy with the eyeful he might have had, if he could see clearly through the translucent rubber. Others teased the boy by blowing up the balloon to the maximum tension, then stopping. Miriam and Stephanie saw the fun that Stacey had and would probably get themselves a boy in a balloon soon, after finding the right boy. Beth looked up in the air, wondering what had become of her boy when the balloon accidentally slipped from her fingers and jetted out through the skylight.

Story #157

5 comments:

The Mushroom said...

Two things bother me about these girls:

#1 - Why does Miriam have her hand in Stephanie's shirt? Looks like she's reaching for a completely different kind of "balloon"... one the boy in the balloon was a bit envious of. He could only hope that one of these girls would rub the balloon against the front of her shirt to attract static electricity, and it was the sight, not the static (since static only exists on the outside of a container), that would make his hair stand on end.

#2 - Beth is armed. Seriously, that's a .32 rifle barrel you see behind Miriam. Let it be known that Beth knows how to shoot a boy down. But at least it was swift and merciful, unlike how the girls normally treated their boys... with needles, or by sitting on them until they burst.

Indeterminacy said...

You're right, that is a rifle I missed. This makes the story all the more ominous.

roachz said...

Abandoned boy-pets galore in the streets. Who will take care of them now?

Cori said...

Excellent post as always! I enjoy these stories so! This one in particular made me think of a song called, "Coin Operated Boy" by a band called "The Dresdin Dolls". !!!!

Indeterminacy said...

A lot of people are finding this story by googling the words "shrunken boy." Is there some significance to this? If you are one of these googlers, please tell me why you are so interested in shrunken boys!