“There once was a beautiful princess named Emma,” David said with the false exuberance of an amusement park dancer.
“Not that one, the funny one,” Emma said.
David hesitated. “There was a Donkey named Daddy…”
Emma smiled and softly laughed. “That’s funny, but do the other one.”
David watched the steam in her nasal tube recede and wished things would be OK again soon. “Once there was a girl named Emma who was abducted by aliens from Nebula 9…” When he finished the story, Emma was asleep, and David fell asleep, too, counting the beeps of the EKG.
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Title by: Janiebird
Story by: Nick
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Really good one, very nice. Would have been so easy to go for the cheap laugh on this one but you made it something special.