Black Scabbity Tran - Chronicles of a Leper, Pt I. (807 hits)
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Submitted by inbreakingnewsT.A.N. (View user info) at 2005-09-18 09:42:45 EDT
Black Scabbity Tran vs Gary Kasparov
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Black Scabbity Tran smiled to himself. He nestled the stricken chick and reaching up, gingerly tucked the displaced animal back into its' nest, cooing and comforting, soothing it.. and inwardingly hoping to reassure.
He smiled again and continued his way down the path. The mother bird who had circled and berated him from on high settled on her nest and squawked one last avian expletive and went about tending her lifeblood...
Black Scabbity Tran was in his element. He loved these walks in the park. The sun shone brightly, the children fed the ducks in the pond, the same ducks that would not gather around his feet no matter how many loaves of bread he brought... again he smiled, and shook his head...
silly ducks..
He stopped and waved to the children and their parents and minders who appeared to shield them from some hidden atrocity...
The ducks seemed to notice him as well and again he waved a friendly "hallo".. they skied across the pond and took flight, probably startled by the children's excited cries..
Black Scabbity Tran shielded his eyes from the sun and watched as the ducks disappeared. He shrugged and walked further down the concrete path and stopped at a garden. Geraniums bloomed and faced the sun, he stooped and inhaled their scent. He would not dare pick them, life flowed through the stems and he marvelled at their freshness, to pick them would be tantamount to them losing their strength and vitality, their youthful energy should wane and fade over time, disappear gradually, not be cut asunder through some whimsical gesture of good will.
He stood again and said a silent prayer. As he turned to continue he noticed a familiar figure sitting at a prefabricated table with a chess board. He smiled to himself and wandered over.
"Why, hallo, Gary" Black Scabbity Tran said.
"Hallo, Black Scabbity, what brings you here?" Gary Kasparov replied.
"Just my Sunday stroll, Gary, I see you've got your chess-set, and time clock."
"Fancy a game, then, Scabbity?"
"Why not!" exclaimed Black Scabbity Tran.
"Pull up a bench, then, black or white?"
"You first, Gary." Black Scabbity Tran smiled. "You're only a grand chess master afterall.."
"Okay, then, pawn c2 too c4."
"I have taken you en passant, Gary.."
"Well, are you going to take your hand off the piece, Scabbity, because until you remove your..."
Black Scabbity Tran let go of the pawn and his hand fell onto the board.
"Um... can you remove your hand from... the, err, board... Scabbity?" asked a disgusted and horrified Gary Kasparov.
"Sorry." said Black Scabbity Tran. I have this... 'thing', going on...
"No, no problems, really, you win... i gotta go.."
"Can I help you pick up, Gary?"
"No, I'm, um... late for an appointment with Felix the Black.... nevermind..
Black Scabbity Tran gathered up the pieces as best he could with one hand and offered Gary Kasparov his time clock..
"Keep it, Scabbity, really.."
Black Scabbity Tran retrieved the rest of the pieces from the board and tucked the time clock under his newly formed stump. He smiled inwardly as he watched his friend Gary Kasparov hurry along the concrete path to his important meeting.
"You go, girl," he thought to himself, and sat on the bench waiting for another grand master, or at the very least a highly intelligent computer generated A.I., like FELIX, for example..
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Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2006-09-10 22:32:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
inbreakingnews is probably the best author on this site. What happened to her?
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-07-05 21:01:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ooh.. I"m all over the map here
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2005-09-26 19:02:58 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by inbreakingnewsT.A.N. (user info) at 2005-09-22 09:35:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-09-22 09:25:00 (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. I had a very similar experience.
Except I don't have leprosy...and it wasn't Kasparov- it was some homeless guy who said he'd beat me at chess for the other half of my sandwich...and half of the game pieces were missing...and I lost.
Come to think of it, nevermind.
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err.. 'sammich", i was playing you for a sammich, sweet girl, and i wasn't "homeless", just 'displaced" is all..
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2005-09-22 09:25:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. I had a very similar experience.
Except I don't have leprosy...and it wasn't Kasparov- it was some homeless guy who said he'd beat me at chess for the other half of my sandwich...and half of the game pieces were missing...and I lost.
Come to think of it, nevermind.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2005-09-19 11:47:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-09-19 09:27:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
yeah.... I liked this.
Submitted by Levity (user info) at 2005-09-19 07:56:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oddly good.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-09-19 06:26:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Silly ducks...
This was a strange bit, indeed. It must receive a plus two from me, only because it may be one of the weirdest things I've read on here in a long time.
Submitted by Barnymeinhoff (user info) at 2005-09-18 16:25:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Its what I do,
I make women look and feel beautiful.
Submitted by yeahthatme (user info) at 2005-09-18 14:23:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I really liked this.
Submitted by SkinnyKenny (user info) at 2005-09-18 14:13:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent. I wanna read more.
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2005-09-18 12:50:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
exposure is hard, and this was bosh
Submitted by inbreakingnewsT.A.N. (user info) at 2005-09-18 10:42:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
thank you, Electro, I've lurked for a while, and your 2 is high praise indeed..
Submitted by Electro (user info) at 2005-09-18 09:51:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Chess is fun.