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Molly Arbuckle: The Truth Comes Out
By givitsum
25 August 2006

Molly returned to her terrace house on the outskirts of Pontefract. The kids would be home soon. She was feeling a little tipsy from her impromptu afternoon drinking session with the charming Yorkshire stallion that was Nobby Burnside. Nobby, ever the gentleman, had insisted they take it in turns at buying rounds, so as to avoid Molly feeling guilty at not paying her way, such was the immediate respect Nobby had afforded her.

She set to work preparing the kids dinners for them, after tidying up the corpse in her bedroom, and stowing it under the stairs with the other one.

"I'll have to get rid of these buggers sooner or later" she thought to herself.

A lavish meal of corned beef sandwiches was soon rustled up for her delightful offspring, who heartily tucked in the the feast before them upon returning from their new school. Exhausted, she sent them out to play to enable her to relax in peace.

After flicking through the TV channels, Molly decided to set up the PC, as due to the recent moving, she hadn't checked her emails for several days. How she wished one of the intelligent but dead men in her life were still alive to hook up all the complicated leads and plugs for her. She had only recently mastered changing a light bulb, so this challenge was more than just a mere quandary.

After a couple of hours, she finally got the thing working, and logged in to her 'Yahoo!' account to check her email. The usual junk-mails littered her inbox. Six from 'Kay's Catalogue, three from Amazon.co.uk, and two from the British Murdering Society. Finally, she managed to negotiate her way round the crap,  to access the ones from her friend Lucy. Close pal Lucy Springbottom had known Molly almost all her life, and still kept in touch despite emmigrating to Grimsby some years previous. Lucy often commented on the beautiful way Molly wrote to her. She seemed to have a way of conveying her innermost feelings much more articulately in print, than she ever could verbally.

Intrigued by Lucy's praise, Molly had for several months now been keeping a diary, where she recorded her innermost feelings, her anxieties, her joys, and grim details of all her murders. To keep up with the modern way of doing things, Molly searched the internet for an online diary, one which she could hide away in cyber-space, away from the potential light fingers of any would-be burglar.

Her meandering search through various sites eventually brought her to a quaint little site called 'Great Writing'. It looked friendly enough, from her first impressions. She noticed there were different categories, where members would post their creative pieces. Then, other members would review the work, and offer their thoughts, opinions, or just write something for the sake of writing it. Perhaps this could be a place to write poems, or short stories? A place to put her excellent mind to keyboard skills to some good use?

"This looks fantastic!" Molly grinned to herself. Being new to Pontefract, she hardly knew a soul, so this little online 'Village' could be a great place to make new friends. She negotiated her way to the 'sign up' section, and entered her details. A rectangular box beckoned, requesting she enter an alias.

"I know" she thought, glancing at the tub of peroxide in the box of bathroom accesories she had yet to unpack. "I'll call myself BottleBlondeSurfer, just for the crack!"


Reviews
HAHAHAHA
Written by TwistedTales (548 comments posted) 24th August 2006
"Brillian, hillarious, side-splitting".  
People "Just write something for the heck of writing it"....hooohehehahaa"...i actually thought in the beginning that she gets caught for real or something...but...the twist with the GW was SUPER-DUPER STUFF. The only thing that kinda made me uncomfortable was the thought of various dead-bodies in her home..gross.... 
 
The killer line of the century....."I'll call myself BottleBlondeSurfer, just for the crack!"....hahahaha....i went through this piece faster than ever before..it was a breeze..."Who's da man"(Great work G)....Loved this... 
 
Regards, 
TT 
Great fun
Written by Gill21 (566 comments posted) 25th August 2006
haha, i echo all TT has said above. After all that THIS is how it ends?! I expected something a little more dramatic however i suppose, in context, you did it justice. 
And yes do those bodies not smell yet? i am slightly concerned for her children. 
Fabby dabby! You did a brilliant job with this series (but thanks for ending it now before there were no more men left, and caught the 'its a mans world' dig, haha) 
'Great writing', great fun :)
a literary triumph
Written by Leo (573 comments posted) 25th August 2006
masterful. poignant. lyrical. powerful. thrilling. funny and above all manly. 
 
pull the bones out of that one Mrs B!
Back at the ranch
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3590 comments posted) 25th August 2006
So then, we end up at Great Writing after all, now why doesn't that surprise me.  
Well done Chris I my just call it a day ,you're just too clever.(I did say may)
More fun
Written by Phil (7009 comments posted) 25th August 2006
Another ripping episode. When does Molly, alias BBS, meet givitsum? 
 
Phil.
Never the twain..
Written by givitsum (651 comments posted) 25th August 2006
Well that was good crack for a while. I did think we drifted off the serious point of male superiority somewhat, but that wasn't down to me!! 
 
Anyway, cheers to everyone! 
 
GVTSM
Good Twist
Written by mishmish (389 comments posted) 26th August 2006
Chris this was classic stuff... 
 
Ending on the GW site and making Molly into BBS...well what can I say...Genius springs to mind! 
 
Great stuff...well done! 
 
best wishes 
 
mish x 
 
Bedtime children...
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 26th August 2006
Aw all right. Yes. Great fun. 
 
But ,' time for bed now, said Zebedee'. [ Dirty Bastard!! ]  
 
I take your point and agree, Chris. This needs re-branding, if at all. Remember always quit while you are ahead and leave 'em gagging for more. Time for some body else to show what they can do. [ Don't hold your breath ]. No matter. Best fun on the site for a while since Mr Wilkinson left a present in Sasquatch's slippers. Needed this. My compliments to you both. [ie You and Sasquatch] Was there another?  
 
Only Joking Jane. I think you certainly get the last word. ' Because you're worth it ' , as they say. 
 
Slan! And my compliments to you all for the craic ! 
 
Slan! 
 
Slan!

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