Funny Mental Insights: 11: The Minor, The Major, and the Mind-Controlling Time Travellers

Prompt #11 is for me to write three short short stories (300 words or less) using three sets of words. I'll underline the words as I use them.

1. It Works in the Movies

She was so pretty. I never knew her name. She was in Miss Cooper's 3rd grade class, and I was in Miss France's class. She was only the girl with a pink ribbon, because she always wore one in her long brown hair, tied with a bow at her neck. I made her a necklace out of paper clips and slipped it and a note into her lunch box while she played on the swing, her hair streaming behind her each time she went forward.

I was sent to see the principal.

2. Career Choice

Mom, Dad, listen! I was not cut out to be a biology major! I never want to see the inside of another frog. I never want to classify another leaf. I never want to draw another blood sample from anyone, least of all an all-to-trusting foreign student named Phillipe, who will, I am certain, someday regain the use of his left thumb.

That's why I used the emergency credit card to buy a 10 class card package at the studio of a former ballet star. And yes, I know what happened when I took dance in high school! Stop harping on that! I'll watch where I kick this time, I promise!

3. The Real Thing

The operatives have been dispatched, posing as a janitor and an office clerk at an advertising department whose details are described in the packet you have been given. An office typewriter has been replaced with a time-continuum communicator, a filing cabinet with the MTS 5000 mind-control unit, and a hole puncher with a class III photon cannon in case they are discovered. An ancient copying device called "carbon paper" will be used to disseminate our message throughout 1950s America. Or rather, it has been used. Time travel can be confusing.

No matter. As you can now see, the procedure is 100% effective. I'll be you've never heard of the thing they used to call Coca-Cola.

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