Monday, September 13, 2010

Janie and the clouds of evil

Janie was a very shy girl from the time she was a baby. One of the first things she learned to do was avoid eye contact with anyone who she was not familiar with.
Janie grew up in a village of shepherds nestled in green hills. The villagers were all very nice and rarely passed up a chance for good conversation even when there was something on T.V. The problem for Janie was that she wanted to avoid conversation all together.
At the time we enter the main events of our story Janie is running home to hide after an overanxious adult carelessly said hello in her direction. While Janie was running home the clouds of evil began to form over the village.
Suddenly Lord Malarky appeared out of the clouds and began to capture the villagers. The villagers tried desperately to get away but without any success. Lord Malarky laughed as he tied each villager to the belly of a sheep. When all the villagers were tied to sheep he sent the whole flock stampeding towards the cliffs.
Janie heard the commotion and decided to leave her hiding spot to see what was happening. She was shocked to find all the people she was familiar with about to run off the cliffs and die. With only mild hesitation she ran out the door to help the people.
When Lord Malarky saw Janie he was very pleased. "Such a beautiful girl like you would surely make a wonderful wall mount for my castle in the clouds.
Disgusted and more than a little afraid of the whole confrontation Janie squeaked out "You let those people go."
"Or what my pretty? I could tear you to bits if I thought it amusing."
Janie did not find this amusing and so told Lord Malarky, "I am not amused."
Lord Malarky didn't waste his breath threatening Janie any more, he swooped down to capture her so he could send her off the cliffs with the others.
Fortunately, Janie had good practice dodging dodgy people and so quickly stepped away before he could grab her.
Lord Malarky grew livid. "You are a worthless little girl and I am going to fry you with lightening."
This hurt Janie, it basically confirmed all of her self doubts. She began to give up inside herself when she heard the villagers singing the Janie song all in unison. "Janie janie Janie janie boom boom shickla to... Janie janie Janie janie boom boom we love you..." Then something happened inside of Janie. She realized how wonderful the villagers were in comparison to Lord Malarky and realized that they really did like her. She grew the biggest brightest smile that had ever been seen in the whole universe.
Seeing the change in Janie frightened Lord Malarky, so he grabbed the lightening from the dark clouds of evil and threw it down at Janie. But Janie's smile was so big and bright that the lightening bounced off her slightly gaped teeth and hit Lord Malarky directly in the left nostril (his unknown Achilles heel). Lord Malarky was knocked out of the sky and lay unconscious among the sharp rocks.
Janie untied the villagers and they each gave her a big hug, which she didn't mind at all.
The villagers gathered around Lord Malarky wondering what to do. The fair and beautiful Christina suggested that they take Lord Malarky far away and leave him there lost and alone, but Benji thought this a bad idea. Our children need closure, they need to know that Lord Malarky will never come back to snatch them from their beds as they sleep. A slim majority, but a majority none the less, agreed with Benji and set about ensuring Lord Malarkey would never frighten their children again even in their dreams, so they cut a small hole in his side and extracted one end of his small intestine which they tied to a bush on the cliffs, then they threw him off so that his guts would be pulled out through the small hole as he fell to his death below.
It was effective and so Lord Malarky was no more, the villagers were happy, and none of the kids were ever frightened again. And you can still see Janie to this day (as long as it is before 1956, her projected death date) skipping around the village conversing with all her friends, the smile still gleaming on her face.

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