My friends and I are in an on-again/off-again writing club where the rules are simple. Every two weeks you have to submit three short stories that it took you 20 minutes or less to write. These are the results.

Kerry Vs. Bush

“Did you watch the debate?  Bush totally killed Kerry,” my brother says excitedly to me on my cell phone  as I am exiting the plane from NYC to Buffalo.  The other passengers and I watched the debate and all cheered wildly as Kerry clearly was the winner.

My brother and I used to watch cartoons everyday together growing up, Jem, Heman, Thundercats. We were raised by the same single mother, attended the same high school, traveled to the same international cities.  I thought we had this great understanding of world politics and issues from not just talk, but experiencing it.   Yet somehow he was a Republican and I was the Democrat.  Being the little sister, he often treats me like I have yet to catch up to him intellectually.

“You must be deaf and left the closed captioning off.  All Bush did was just gesticulate like a crazy person, ” I say in utter amusement and amazement.