Unconscious Mutterings - Corporate Downfall

LunaNiƱa offers ten words to her readers to free associate each week as her Unconscious Mutterings meme. Why not play along. Her link is here.

<ol><li>Cluster :: ______
<li>Announcement :: resignation
<li>Respect :: fully
<li>Incident :: of record
<li>Accordion :: player
<li>Drunk :: man
<li>If :: I could
<li>Dexter :: will
<li>Wedding :: bells
<li>Gambling :: man
</ol>

End of meme, beginning of playtime for me… I attempt to use each word in order and tense given in a poem or short story, today is more of a piece of a story, but it is what came to my head…. If you chose to play with NiƱaLumina’s words, please link back to her, or preferably ask for permission.

Corporate Downfall

He called it a name, I cannot say in front of mixed company, a cluster ____. We both should have been offended, but after their announcement and the resignation of the director, I was quite sure that all the employees felt that way, in fact, I know of three homes where I am quite sure the same phrase was repeated.

I can respect fully their frustration at being tossed out the door at the mere whim of an executive with more power than brains. There was another incident on record, they later discovered where said executive had done similar on a smaller scale. How did it get past the Board?

Maybe that is it, maybe they (the Board) are all nothing more than bellows of the accordion player, that drunk man fondling his wife’s sister even as we speak. If I could, I would expose them all to become bellowing fools rather than merely the bellows played by Adrian Dexter.

Wait, perhaps I could. In fact, I will. I hear wedding bells in my future, John, a ring of gigantic proportions, followed by a divorce settlement to rival that of the stars. I know you aren’t a gambling man, John, but if you place your bet on me this time, you will win. I am dangling myself in front of Dexter’s wife…. She is not as innocent as she looks… I can put up with bedding her a few months, the few times I will be in town… I will get the proof we need. After all, what is a brother for, but to pummel the bullies who mess with his little sis and her mate?

MeeAugraphie
10/07/07

Now, I cannot imagine anyone wanting to copy this piece of a story, so don’t, please.

2 Comments

  1. Posted October 9, 2007 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    Cluster :: it starts with f and rhymes with duck
    Announcement :: birth
    Respect :: authority
    Incident :: reaction
    Accordion :: polka
    Drunk :: dial
    If :: what
    Dexter :: Bean
    Wedding :: dress
    Gambling :: Cookie

  2. Posted October 9, 2007 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    I LOVE your extension of Unconscious Mutterings, Marcia! That is so “you!” Great job you did there.

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