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halfshellvenus) wrote2025-12-16 12:42 am
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LJ Idol Wheel of Chaos: "Childhood Treasures"
Childhood Treasures
Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 17, #3 | 1424 words
6 7
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It was never a time capsule, no matter what Bobby Lockerby said. It was a memory-box, where Jake kept souvenirs and other special things.
Jake was 6, almost 7, when he started collecting those things. It all started with a pretty little red rock he found down by the creek one day.
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There was a four-leaf clover, dried and flattened, and the ticket stubs from the first ballgame Jake ever went to with his Dad. There was a trilobite fossil, a squashed souvenir penny from a trip to Disney World when Jake was eight, and a Kingfisher feather as blue as the sky.
Jake kept all of them in a metal Superman lunchbox in his closet, with Jake's–Keep Out! written on the top. The note was mainly for Jake's younger brother Eddie, who had no respect for privacy. Mom said it was because Eddie was only five, but all Jake knew was that he didn't want some little pipsqueak pawing through his stuff.
It was a miracle Jake ever had time to find any of the cool stuff he did. It seemed like Eddie was always there, following him everywhere he went: "Whatcha doing?"
Sometimes, Jake just wanted to explore quietly on his own. You saw more of what went on that way– animals weren't so afraid of you, and nobody was there to distract you. A little brother with non-stop talking was just about the biggest distraction there was.
And when he wasn't out exploring, Jake would rather be playing with Bobby Lockerby or one of his other friends.
"Mommmmm," Jake would moan. "Why can't Eddie go bother someone else?"( Read more... )
Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 17, #3 | 1424 words
6 7
x-x-x-x-x
It was never a time capsule, no matter what Bobby Lockerby said. It was a memory-box, where Jake kept souvenirs and other special things.
Jake was 6, almost 7, when he started collecting those things. It all started with a pretty little red rock he found down by the creek one day.
.
There was a four-leaf clover, dried and flattened, and the ticket stubs from the first ballgame Jake ever went to with his Dad. There was a trilobite fossil, a squashed souvenir penny from a trip to Disney World when Jake was eight, and a Kingfisher feather as blue as the sky.
Jake kept all of them in a metal Superman lunchbox in his closet, with Jake's–Keep Out! written on the top. The note was mainly for Jake's younger brother Eddie, who had no respect for privacy. Mom said it was because Eddie was only five, but all Jake knew was that he didn't want some little pipsqueak pawing through his stuff.
It was a miracle Jake ever had time to find any of the cool stuff he did. It seemed like Eddie was always there, following him everywhere he went: "Whatcha doing?"
Sometimes, Jake just wanted to explore quietly on his own. You saw more of what went on that way– animals weren't so afraid of you, and nobody was there to distract you. A little brother with non-stop talking was just about the biggest distraction there was.
And when he wasn't out exploring, Jake would rather be playing with Bobby Lockerby or one of his other friends.
"Mommmmm," Jake would moan. "Why can't Eddie go bother someone else?"( Read more... )
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