How about this?

Puff lay, so patiently, waiting, and suddenly, a door.
Esmeralda turned the key in the lock and stepped into the apartment, setting her two bags of groceries on the floor as she double locked the door behind her.
“Oh, Puffles! Did you miss me? Let me just get out of these wet clothes and I’ll get you some food.”
Singing softly to herself, Esmerelda lost track of her whereabouts and tripped, barely missing the cat who had started nosing around the groceries. She picked up the bags and set them on the kitchen counter.
“Damn! Puff, get out of there.” Esmeralda shooed the cat and collected herself. She slipped out of her clothes and grabbed a robe off the back of the closet door. Sliding her feet into her slippers, she scuffed back down the hall to the kitchen.
Having a strong urge, she put bacon and eggs on the griddle, knowing that he would have a powerful reaction.
Puff hated it when she cooked. Distracted by the rain, the cat, and the groceries, Esmeralda didn’t hear Jeff when he came into the hallway, shaking the rain off his umbrella as he kicked off his shoes.
Reaching out, he grabbed her.
“Jeez, Jeff! What the hell are you thinking?” Esmeralda turned off the stove and slid the eggs onto her plate.
“Great way to greet me after all this time!” Jeff had been in the mountains.
“Well, for all I knew you could have been
Dead, missing, fled to a country with no extradition.
What was I supposed to think?
Looking up, he saw something that made him pause.
In his hurry to get into the house, he had left the door open.
Suddenly, a gust of wind, and things were in disarray.
"Puff, what did you do?"
The END

That is great! A high standard, you set. (Now I sound like Yoda.)

This was fun! Thanks.

I figured, it's Friday. We should have fun on Friday. Fun on Fridays. Here's to a trend tonight.

Well hell how are supposed to top that!! :) I will put my thinking cap on...

Can't wait!

Especially since I just spent 15 minutes re-doing the wiring between my TV, DVD player and stereo so I can hear Short Circuit in movie EQ with surround sound. At least, as much as you get from a bookcase stereo. I cannot believe I got it so fracked up.

LOL Oh, how I wishIi had time enough to do this now!
LOL
Phyllis--I do hoep you've saved your posts for when we change to a different format?


@LL2: You just made me laugh and smile. Thanks for that!

Puff lay, so patiently, waiting, and suddenly, a door with a bright light behind it opened. As he opened his eyes farther there stood his brother Sage who had been run over by that bus and his mom, he had never known what happened to her. As Puff stood he was surprised to see his master sitting beside him crying and his body laying out in the cool, cool grass. As he watched all his relatives came running over and his old master who had gone away one day and never came back was standing there smiling. Puff was sad to say goodbye to his old owners daughter as he loved her dearly but somehow his instinct knew they would meet again. With a glance back Puff took off at a run, to climb trees and to play like he hadn't been able to play in years.

LL2 - Now I know more about Puff! Yea!

LL2, how poignant and beautiful. I hope happiness for Puff when that day comes.

Looking up, he saw something that made him pause. This was a mighty tall tree--and there was a bear in a crotch no more than ten feet up from where he was. "Whatever will I do?" he thought. "I have to get to the top of this tree, where the gold is hidden. Once again, something made him pause. Then it hit him. "That's what I'll have to do." Quickly he gathered some leather, teeth from the skull of an antelope and, buckskin thongs and a needle, and, in no time at all, he was able to climb the tree with ease, swung right past the bear. The material he had gathered; it made him paws.

John, good one! "...it made him paws!"

Ugh, I got my web page done. Finally. Now we need one for the group intro page. Pth-t

Reaching out, he grabbed her. Then Billy Joe exclaimed, "Bobby Sue, when I told you she was so skinny that she needed to eat a sandwich, I didn't mean a Sammy and Sally slider! Now she is dead, missing and we have fled to a country with no extradition. I picked the Maldives because it is brilliant and beautiful. I know that due to global warming it is sinking into the ocean, but that is the brilliance of my plan! No one will find us under water!!"

Looking up, he saw something that made him pause. It was Billy Jack, the detective down in Texas. "Hey, Billy Jack, sit down and have a beer. We took the money. Hey, you know we got away. We headed down to the Maldives and we're still afloat for today."


With apologies to Steve Miller and Sammy and Sally. :)

Puff lay, so patiently, waiting, and suddenly, a door. Or was it a jar?

MM, that was nicely twisted.

Abra, we may never know...

Reaching out, he grabbed her. She didn't know he meant to help her. She was tired, scared, hungry and thirsty. She had been stuck up there all day. Now, this large person had appeared suddenly at the top of her tree. Hissing, the cat sank her teeth in his hand. He jerked his hand back, upsetting the ladder, which fell backward onto the lawn. Another 911 call, this time for an ambulance for the guy who tried to save the cat stuck up a tree.

Reaching out, he grabbed her, or tried to. She deftly dodged aside then brought her knee up into his groin, hard. As he flopped about on the floor, moaning and holding his damaged testicles, she said "Time to take out the trash," then calmly picked up a lamp from the end table and bashed his brains out.

Suddenly, a gust of wind, and things were in disarray. A lot of things, but most importantly, his curly hair. Reaching out, he grabbed her shoulder, and said, “uh, how is my hair?” while frantically patting it down. She’d been singing softly to herself, hardly remembering he was with her, and now , startled, she tripped, but he was playing with his f-ing hair, so she hit the pavement and saw stars. He forgot all about his hair, and dialed 911, fearing she had busted a hip.

These are great! Drama, action, 911. What more do we need?

Singing softly to herself, Esmerelda lost track of her whereabouts and tripped. Less than graceful, she plopped to the ground. But what's this? A rabbit hole?

Reaching out, he grabbed her. Merie screamed as one barbed tentacle wrapped itself firmly upon her right wrist. There was a knife attached to the outside of her right boot, and she ignored the blood dripping from her wrist as she struggled desperately to reach it. She screamed again as the Mitrom wrapped another tentacle tightly around her neck. And then there was silence.

Of course, we needed a rabbit hole and some tentacles! Cool!