Willard Cornwallis had always
wanted to open a museum and be a millionaire, and he
thought he could accomplish both by opening The Museum of the Electronic Mouse.
The new
museum had wired mouses, wireless mouses, and a mouse that said "Made in
China." There was a mouse that had been used by Gates (David Gates, the
lead singer of Bread), one
used by Steve Jobs (a small employment agency in Akron), and a fanciful mouse
operated by Blue Stripe Guy, a Batman villain who never quite got to tangle
with Batman because his mommy called him in for dinner.
In June,
Willard Cornwallis opened his museum and by August he was indeed a millionaire
many times over.
The
crowds that thronged to The Museum of the Electronic Mouse did not come to see
the exhibits. They came to see what kind of an idiot would think he could
become a millionaire with a museum like The Museum of the Electronic Mouse.
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If you're a stickler for the 100 word requirement of the Friday Fictioneers (and fortunately Rochelle is not), I hope you didn't read the above piece. This story is so far over the limit, even I want to force feed me my mouse for writing it.
But I didn't want to give short shrift to an enterprising dude like Willard Cornwallis, so I present his story here in 200 words or less (I hope). You can read the enterprising and certainly more length-appropriate stories of the other Fictioneers by clicking here.
See you at The Museum of the Electronic Mouse! Can't to see that "Made in China" wonder.
(Sorry, still mostly missing in action for reading your stories. Please don't write anything great until I come back ....)
