| | An Ordinary Beginning
by Jordan
(xanga: the_penguin_boy)
Welcome to the land of Qrrbrbirlbel, where anything can happen.
Our story starts off with a man named Walter. Walter is a man in his
mid 30s with a wife, Katrina, a four year old daughter, Laura, and a
bouncing baby boy, Frederic. He has a car, a two-story house, and lives
what appears to be an ordinary life. But, unbeknownst to Walter and his
family, his life is about to become all but ordinary. We begin with an
ordinary dinner conversation-
"Pass me the peas, will you honey?" Walter pointed to an ordinary bowl of peas across the table.
As she passed him the peas, Katrina noted in an ordinary fashion, "Some men came to see you today."
Walter looked up as he scooped some ordinary peas onto his lap. "Men? What kind of men? What did they want?"
"Oh, you know. Just ordinary men. They didn't say what they wanted,
though; just that they wanted to talk to you as soon as you were
available."
"And what did you tell them?" Walter said, plucking the ordinary peas out of his lap and putting them back on his plate.
"I said you'd be back later this evening. Why?"
There was a knock at the door.
Walter looked at his wife across the ordinary table, wiped his mouth
with his napkin, set it on the table, got up, and walked down the
hallway towards the door.
The door. It was an ordinary door. No fancy woodwork, no windows, no
frills, just a slab of wood with an ordinary knob on it. He turned the
knob to open the door. Behind it, he found two, ordinary men standing
in the rain on his front porch, each wearing a black business suit and
a black fedora hat, and carying a briefcase. Their faces were
emotionless. They were quite well built, almost machine like in
complexion. Just your ordinary Italian mafia hitmen on a business call.
[Edit 11:06 AM, 9/5/05]
Minor spelling and grammar corrections. -Jordan
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| | Posted 9/4/2005 6:07 PM - 4 comments
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