Just for fun I thought I'd do a little story and confine myself to 250 words. Here 'tis... Hope you have fun reading it.
They’d have bet George would whine, snivel, and cry when
they came to escort him to the chair; George was just that kind of guy. But when the two guards arrived George was
laughing so hard he could barely breathe; his last meal untouched, a crumpled
up piece of paper clutched in his hand.
“Hope he doesn’t laugh himself to death before we get him to
the chair,” one of the guards grumbled, shackling George in preparation for the
dead man’s walk.
“Yeah, an execution’s no
laughing matter,” came the reply.
George would have been rolling
on the floor absent the guards’ tight grip as they propelled him through the
cell block.
The witnesses to the execution
were appalled; George snorted, giggled and roared with laughter all the way to
the chair. Just before the final
strapping in, George erupted into another paroxysm of uncontrolled laughter,
balled up the paper still held in his fist, tossed the ball into the corner of
the executioner’s room and sat down, still quaking as he belly laughed out the
last few moments of his life.
After the execution the
witnesses were, again, appalled at inappropriate laughter. One of the guards who’d escorted George to
his death was reading:
“Dear Mr. George Hudson,
Magazine Clearing House is
pleased to announce you are this year’s winner of the Magazine Clearing House
sweepstakes. A representative will be
calling soon to present you with our grand prize; $5,000 per week for the rest
of your life!”
