What short story?
Kelly, The Flying Angel by Louise R. Hamm
Where can you get it?
Chicken Soup For The Kid’s Soul
What can you learn
from it?
The author made sure to set up the importance of each
character throughout the story so the end didn’t seem impossible. The author kept the cast small allowing for
character development where it counted.
My attempt at using
this style.
Wayne met Lillian in elementary school and hadn’t talked to
her since eighth grade. He thought of
her as he sat wet in a IHOP in a blizzard.
He wasn’t sure why he was thinking of her or her love of cats. He laid
his head down and in a dream a phone number came to him. He asked to use the
phone and called the number from his dream.
“Hello?”
“Hey, this
is embarrassing. This is Wayne.”
“Oh my God!
How are you?”
“Bad.”
“Why?”
“I’m
homeless.”
“In this
weather?”
Lillian and
her wife Bethany drove to pick up Wayne from the local IHOP and took them to
their apartment. Bethany pulled out the
fold-a-bed and Wayne slept there. After
two days of Wayne watching Lillian and Bethany love on their three cats Wayne
gathered his courage.
“Lillian,
Bethany, I need to ask you another favor.”
“What is it
honey,” Lillian asked.
“When I got
evicted I had a cat. He’s still in the house.”
Bethany
clenched her fists.
Lillian
touched her shoulder softly.
Lillian asked,
“So what are you asking?”
“I’ve seen
how you are with your cats. Would you take my cat Trogdor?”
Bethany took
a deep breath before speaking. “If we take Trogdor we will register him and he
will become our cat.”
Wayne
recoiled. He sat in silence for a moment.
Wayne
finally said, “You’ve agreed to help me. I trust he’s safe with you. I couldn’t
care for him even when I get place. I love him. It’s what’s best. Can I still
visit when I move out?”
Lillian and
Bethany smiled and in unison said, “Of course.”
How about you?
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