Porch Stories

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Rover woke up long enough to scratch his ear and then laid his head back down on the porch. “That dog of yours is the laziest beast I have ever seen!”
“You should have see ‘em yesterday, Ben. That dog right there chased that worthless Johnson boy right out’a my garden. Yes he did.” George proudly nodded towards the pooch.
“Yeah sure he did.” Ben mumbled. A bewildered look came upon his face and then he asked, “Where do you have a garden?”
George looked at him with surprise," You ain’t seen my garden?"
“No, I AIN’T seen your garden,” Ben huffed.
“That damn Johnson boy!” George scoffed. “He done stole my whole garden!”
Ben just shook his head, “You old senile coot. You never had a garden. And anyway the Johnson boy moved away two weeks ago.”
George looked squarely at Ben. “Then who did my dog chase?”
“It’s your story.”
“It ain’t no story!” George hollered. “My dog came runnin’ ‘round the house chasin’ somebody! I seen it with my own two eyes, I did! An’ he was carryin’ this!”
“George, it’s a bone.”

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  1. Avatar ElshaHawk (LoA)

    another senile old man story.. I thought at first this was going to be a dog story, which I thought I had the market on with my Percolate and Waffle series.. lol j/k (now you should go look that up, it’s good as long as you remember what percolate and waffle mean, you’ll get it. It should be illustrated for children’s books I say! lol)

    BUT it was another senile old man story and it was funny. Would’a been funnier if he was carryin’ a pair of panties or a swatch of denim..

  2. Avatar mama murph (LoA)

    there’s your sequel! but I already wrote one! I kinda like senile old men!

  3. Avatar ElshaHawk (LoA)

    are you going to add to this collection titled “Porch Stories”, because you could. heck let’s take pictures of porches and make a coffeetable book, you wanna?

  4. Avatar ElshaHawk (LoA)

    haha! I was writing this comment as you were writing a sequel!

  5. Avatar OneMoreDay(LoA)

    Senile old men entertain me, sometimes. And I’m sure that good things happen to dogs who chase imaginary boys out of imaginary gardens! :D

  6. Avatar mama murph (LoA)

    hey, I never thought of that one! imaginary boys…hmmmm…..Thanks!

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