Quaran-tiny Tales (pdf)

At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
Board games, laughter, joint yoga sessions…
He used the good towel.
It was over.
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
He used the good towel.
It was over.
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Stan The Succulent smirked,
noting the humans’ waxy pallor
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
with Board more games, laughter, than joint yoga a lessons. little schadenfreude.
He used good towel.
Now they’d know what it felt like
It was over.
to be stuck indoors all day.
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“OMG! I have water retention!”
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
Sylvia thought, Board games, laughter, critically joint yoga lessons. examining herself
He used the good towel.
It was over.
in the far left tile of the Zoom video panel.
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Jill went down on all fours,
desperately tapping the bathroom floor
like a cage fighter in a chokehold grip
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
as she He searched used the good towel. for her fallen lens.
It was over.
“Contact tracing is back-breaking
work,”she thought.
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Leaning languidly in the Great Outdoors,
Irene the Ivy Plant looked at Bob as he stared
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
listlessly back at her from behind his bedroom
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
He used the good towel.
It was over.
window. She noted, without a trace of irony,
that he seemed ready to climb the walls.
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Fan Blade #3 privately wished his owners
wouldn’t glorify this “WFH” thing so much.
God knows, he’d been WFH-ing all his life,
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
and sure, it was a revolutionary way of working
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
He used the good towel.
at first, but It was he over. could tell them from experience,
that eventually, it would just end up being
a tedious, solitary, repetitive chore.
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“Who’s watching?” asked Netflix.
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
He used the good towel.
It was over.
“Not me,” replied Alexa.
“I’m only listening.”
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Having heard that his batchmates
were suddenly flying off the shelves,
Tobias the Literal-Minded Toilet Roll,
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
hoping He used to the defy good towel. Gravity himself, rolled
It was over.
off the edge with a wild, ill-advised
yeee-haaa!
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It was dark and freezing in the chiller tray.
Margaret the Margarine Tub sat in solitude
and shivered. Her only other friends - Manny
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
the Mozzarella Board games, and laughter, Isaac joint yoga lessons. the Ice Pack - wanted
He used the good towel.
nothing to do with her anymore. Suddenly, for
It was over.
some reason, it had become a bad thing to be
a super spreader.
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Sid the Sanitizer felt like Alec Baldwin.
For years he was the Forgotten Man.
He’d given up on ever having a meaningful career.
Like Alec, he’d At first, their turned life indoors was into fantastic. a 70% alcoholic.
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
He used the good towel.
And then one
It was
day,
over.
the Universe shifted.
And suddenly, bazinga! the world couldn’t
get enough of him.
C’est la vie.
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To James’ solitude-ravaged mind,
it looked like that can of tuna was reading
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
his innermost thoughts. ‘Drained and ready
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
He used the good towel.
It was over.
to eat’ it said on the label. And goshdarnit
if that wasn’t exactly how he was feeling!
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Walter the Wall Clock looked down
at his human.To be honest, Walter was
feeling rather smug and more than a little
At first, their life indoors was fantastic.
superior Board to games, his laughter, human joint yoga lessons. who needed to be
He used the good towel.
told by that tinier human in the lit box,
It was over.
that his hands were never to touch his face.
I mean, really! That was Clock 101.
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Norman the Night Light felt a troubling
sense of unease. Sure, even a dim bulb like him
knew that eventually all bulbs got replaced…
but then, he had At first, only their life indoors just was fantastic. got on board
Board games, laughter, joint yoga lessons.
and already, all ever heard around this house
He used the good towel.
It was over.
was folks saying ‘the new Norman, the new Norman’.
Frankly, he was a concerned night bulb.
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