Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Ice Cold

"ICE COLD" - Patsy Collins


The children ran off excitedly yelling for ice creams; they ran back terrified yelling for their mums.

Weird Walter the ice cream man lay dead on the floor of his van. His cooling blood oozed from the neat hole in the left side of his head, mingling with strawberry sauce, chopped nuts and chocolate flakes.

Police say he topped himself.


BIO: Patsy Collins writes short stories for magazines including, Woman's Weekly, Fiction Feast, Candis, Ireland's Own, My Weekly and That's Life. To read more about her and her writing, please visit
patsy-collins.blogspot.com

9 comments:

  1. Sorry about last comment. I pressed the wrong button.

    You are right the story is short and sweet. I love it!

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  2. I love it. You took a joke and turned it into something gruesome! Very clever. Very nasty.

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  3. Strawberry jam and strawberry jam? Yuk! Well done, Patsy!

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  4. Ooh, nice and icky, Patsy!

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  5. Good stuff Patsy!

    Tapes

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  6. Ha ha brilliant stuff. A good old joke turned on its head into what could easily be a new urban legend.

    Short and sweet. In fact a very sweet Ice Scream.

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  7. Ice Scream? Yikes, that's worse than one of mine!

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  8. Really enjoyed this. Very clever. Ice cream will never be the same again!

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