I've Looked at Clouds (FF)

FF- Flash Fiction

Ronald Lumley settled back in his seat, gave a sigh of contentment, and gazed through the round portal.

"Nothing more beautiful!" thought Ron.  High above everything else, the delicious white fluffy shapes billowed magnificently like mountains, sumptuously as a fleece yet softly and gently like puffs of smoke.

"Oh, miss?" he said to the uniformed woman walking down the aisle.  "When will we arrive?" 

"Almost any second, sir," she replied and continued down the aisle to the office of Dr. Kropotkin.

"So sad, Doctor!  Every time he opens a new bottle and gazes at the cotton, the same delusion!"

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I've looked at this story from both sides now and am on Cloud 9 that at 108 words it did not billow too far beyond the 100 word goal for me this week at the Friday Fictioneers.

If you want to twist open the cap, pull out the cotton, and grab a handful of the offerings of the other Fictioneers, click here and I promise they'll  have you soaring too!  

Either in the sky or otherwise, your preference.

The Second Worst Baby Boomer Nightmare Ever

Hello, I'm Bob Dylan.

Y'know, folks our age often find they need some extra income to do all the things they'd like, limited though these things may be.  Often as debts pile up high, people entering the Golden Years find themselves lucky if they can afford bingo and shuffleboard, let alone checkers! 

King me, Judy Collins!

Now there's an answer for folks like you and me and Judy.   The good people at American Friends Happy Face Financial recently asked me to chat with you about a great opportunity called a Re-verse Mortgage.  If you're 62 or older and own your own homes like I do --- I mean, own your own home --- this is a Godsend for you!  And that's whether you're Jewish or Christian, or alternate between both of them like I do.

How does it work?  There must be some kind of way to tell you!

Hit it, Joni Mitchell!

How many debts cause a man to drown

Before the bank makes final demand?

How many payment pleas do they by Jove him assail

Before they grab him by his gland?

Yes, and how many times must they kick his balls awry

Before he's forever de-manned?

The answer, my friend, is Re-verse Mortgagin' 

The answer is Re-verse Mortgagin'. 

Yes, and how many years can bills mounting persist

Before over them you can't see?

Yes, and how many years can some people subsist

Before they're financially free?

Yes, and how many times till you turn your homestead

Into bucks insured by FDIC?

The answer, my friend, is Re-verse Mortgagin' 

The answer is Re-verse Mortgagin'. 


Yes, and how many times must a man fuck up
Before he can see what is why?
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear me decry?
Yes, and how many debts will it take till it shows
You're wearing clothes in which people have died?

The answer, my friend, is Re-verse Mortgagin' 

The answer is Re-verse Mortgagin'. 

How does it  feel to get a Re-verse Mortgage?  You'll be thinking that  you've got it made! 

So call your good friends and neighbors at American Friends Happy Face Financial right now!  

Joan Baez is standing by.

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