I saw mommy
For Raymond G. Taylor's "Oh Jeff flash fiction challenge"
“Oh Jeff, I love you too… but... you must never tell daddy what you saw. You don’t want mommy to get in trouble do you?“
Little Jeffery, confused at first is now scared, shakes his head, while his young world blurs through tear filled eyes. The excitement of tomorrow morning vanishes like the ghost of Christmas past. He dares a glance back at the mistletoe hanging over the archway, and sees red.
Her hands tremble, praying her son wakes up in the morning thinking this was nothing but a dream.
Yet, the tingling sensation of his beard and taste of cookies and milk still lingers upon her lips. Silently she curses her weakness for a man in uniform.
Merry Christmas
Jason
About the Creator
JBaz
I have enjoyed writing for most of my life, never professionally.
I wish to now share my stories with others, lets see where it goes.
Born and raised on the Canadian Prairies, I currently reside on the West Coast. I call both places home.
Logic and reason are not always explanation enough.
Logic and reason are not always explanation enough. Understanding is elusive He sat looking at the half empty glass but not seeing it, he was cold but not feeling it, he was in pain but not hurting from it. His mind was numb, his memory a jumble of conflicting events, as if from a nightmare but were in fact real. The phone rang for a long time before it gained his attention and then he tried to turn it off, an automatic reaction against coming back to reality. His mind preferred the numbness to anything else that was available. In this distracted state he accidentally accepted the call and put it onto speaker, the voice from the speaker jolted him into giving it his full attention. This was a call from the dead. The voice was full of concern, “where are you John, why haven’t you called, what is going on?” Even to his own ears his tone sounded subdued, defeated, “I am in the cabin, in the woods but I am OK will call you later” and he turned the phone off both ending this call and not accepting any other.
By Peter Rose3 days ago in Fiction
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
Comments (21)
Loved it!!!❤️❤️💕
Ho ho ho somebody is on the naughty list!
A man in uniform 🤣
Ha ha, lovely story. great take on the challenge and thanks for joining in
Haha! Very clever, JBaz! Poor little Jeffery!
Well-wrought and clever!
hahahaha. I laughed so hard at this. I realised where it was going...but...the depth you added to Jeffrey's ruined Christmas and the lingering lust on "mommy's" lips. lol. Brilliant.
I saw mommy alright......and that's not the Santa we know! Cool write!
Haha 😄 what a surprising ending. Very Captivating !!!!
Ewww, he's like so old! Her weakness needs to come with some boundaries, lol. Loved your story+
HA!!! Nice one, J. I guess they can finally change the title of the song to " I saw mommy doing Santa Claus" Bad, mama! 😅
I recall this song … 😂😂😂
I wonder how many packages the old guy really drops off on his rounds?
Beards. Humbug. Always believe that little monsters are hiding out in between those enigmatic strands. I'm off to report to Mrs. Claus. Big trouble coming.
haha. That was great. Of course, now the song is stuck on my head.
Hhahah! I mean, I wouldn't consider Santa a man in uniform but this was still good! Loved it Jason!! Great work!
Hahahahaha, bravo!
😁brilliant!
Ha! Her heart tingles every time she sees the Coca-Cola truck.
WOW! 😱 Amazing!!!!
Ha! And what an iconic uniform!