Lauren's story | Stephani Walker

Chuck was an ordinary guy with webbed toes who liked cheese and singing in the rain. His dear sick mother needed bread, so he trotted on down to the grocery store with glee after much deliberation on finding the money he needed in the couch crevices and stairway. On the way there he noticed a rather good looking young girl and thought, "I ought to get me one of those!" as most guys do. The thought vanished as his destination came to sight and noticed that she was, in fact, a troll. His seemingly endless two minute walk is abruptly ended when he is shot right in the chest by a dirty thief leaving the store with a bag of money and sweat dripping down his face and onto his overly hairy chest, causing the hairs to poke up fiendishly like the hairs do with static electricity attached.

The look on his face said it all as he felt the cold, piercing bullet enter his body...and then as he gazed rather blankly up and saw strange faces staring down at him with an oxygen mask aiding his breath. One thing was for sure, the vehicle he was in was not pleasant, and he was NEVER going to the grocery store again! How could someone do this to him?! This, my friend, will always be a mystery that will perhaps someday be solved, but for now, his recovery in the hospital is what matters most as the ambulance pummels its way down the barren street.