“Sheriff Braxton, I just got word that rustlers have stolen over a hundred head of cattle out at the Dugan ranch!” cried Freddy Kruger. “Should we round up a posse?”
“No need, Deputy Kruger,” replied the Sheriff. “I’ll handle it myself.”
He strapped on his holster and checked the M-19 Plasma pistol that hung inside. Fully charged. With a tip of his hat he strode out of the dusty sheriff’s office.
Outside, his trusty dinosaur mount was tied to the hitching post.
“C’mon, Rex, time to ride,” he said, climbing into the saddle.
The dinosaur sprouted wings and flew off into the purple sky. The Sheriff slipped the One Ring onto his finger. Best to be invisible so the rustlers don’t see me comin‘, he thought.
Don Archer, assistant manager at the local burger joint stared at the scene in the dining area. Customers were prancing around, babbling about dinosaurs and unicorns and angels while climbing all over the chairs and tables.
“What the holy Hell?” he exclaimed.
Terrance, the fry cook came to the front. “Oh jeez,” he said.
“Oh jeez, what?” asked Don.
“Well, we ran out of mushrooms for our new burger so I used some I found in a plastic baggie in Paulie’s coat pocket.”
“Paulie the Pothead?” asked Don, wide-eyed.
Terrance never got that promotion he’d been hoping for.
[This is my entry into the Sunday Photo Fiction challenge, hosted by Alastair Forbes. Write a short story of 200 words or less from the photo prompt provided.
I dedicate this story to my nephew Braxton who loves to do Cowboy Stuff.Β And don’t do drugs. Drugs are bad, M’kay? π ]
~V
I like how my brain’s asking me drunkenly, “Whaaaa?” A wonderful mishmash of characters and myths!
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Haha! Mission accomplished! I don’t know why my brain took me in that direction this morning, but it was fun writing it. Glad you liked it and thanks for the comment. π
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You’re welcome. Just discovered your blog and it’s awesome π
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Well thank you very much. I’ll be sure to take a look at yours as well.
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Where you actually taking magic mushrooms at the time that you wrote this?! I loved piecing together all the different mythologies.
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LOL… Surprisingly, my brain goes to those places without any help. π
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I love it. Definitely an unreliable narrator.
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Ha, it got weirder and weirder and then… there’s a reasonable explanation! Very good π
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This wasn’t my first attempt at the prompt. My first story was crap so I just sat back and let my mind go wandering. I guess it really took a long walk. π
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Haha hilarious! I was going to say very creative having a dinosaur as a horse,mand sprouting wings at that, to catch the cattle thief. Then, you tell us the cook has been using “different” mushrooms at the diner and all became clear. Everyone’s out of their mind high. Lol, Great tell and way to go with this prompt Chris.
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Guess the sheriff will not be dinning there again. π
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That was brilliant Chris. The mythology had me on a parallel world, where in fact it was a parallel mind lol
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I borrowed a bit from the imagery of the movie “Heavy Metal” (at least in my mind) and that was fun. Describing someone tripping on shrooms is kind of liberating. There are no limits…lol. I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for the great prompt.
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A pleasure π
Having had some LSD nearly 30 years ago, I can so relate to this. That wasn’t fun either lol
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Is it drunk out or is it just me? An intoxicating tale!
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They were REALLY good burgers…lol. Glad you liked it Karen. π
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Great Story! I love it. You have such a free-flowing and easy style.
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Thank you. This was a really fun story to write because I figured there were no boundries in describing hallucinations. I’m glad you liked it. π
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Hilarious, Chris. A bag of those mushrooms would do it wouldn’t they. Well done. π — Suzanne
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Thanks Suzanne. Better than “Special Sauce”. π
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