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Gray All Over

November 23, 2018 11 Comments

Gray All Over
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It was too outré to fully comprehend: there, in the banquet hall, in the very midst of their cocktail party, a Disney character loomed.

He was larger than his real-life counterparts. Yet otherwise he was completely familiar, with large ears that flapped slowly and a trunk that knocked over things as he drifted about.

Was it the drink? Some drugs? Mass psychosis?

No one wanted to broach the subject. And so all of the attendees sipped from their glasses and chattered in low tones, while glancing at—but never mentioning—the idiom they had all startlingly found themselves a part of.

By Jeff H.

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  1. Don Tassone says

    November 23, 2018 at 7:10 am

    No doubt the origin of “elephant in the room.” Well done!

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    • Jeff says

      November 23, 2018 at 9:29 am

      Thank you!

      Reply
  2. Susan says

    November 23, 2018 at 10:42 am

    Captivating! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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    • Jeff says

      November 23, 2018 at 5:29 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply
  3. Vivian Satterwhite says

    November 23, 2018 at 2:24 pm

    ??

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  4. Vivian Satterwhite says

    November 23, 2018 at 2:27 pm

    Sorry, that was not the comment that I intended.
    I enjoyed the story very much!

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    • Jeff says

      November 23, 2018 at 5:29 pm

      No worries. Thank you!

      Reply
  5. Mary E Falkner says

    November 23, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    Seriously clever. Well done.

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  6. Meghashri says

    November 23, 2018 at 8:27 pm

    Wonderfully done! Loved it!

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  7. Sarah Archer says

    November 24, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    I enjoyed your very clever story.

    Reply
  8. derekmcmillan1951 says

    November 25, 2018 at 7:21 am

    Clever stuff. I enjoyed this.

    Reply

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