Petey Pantaloons Shall Never Find His Pantaloons

If you’re the story writin’ type, check out the WriAShorStorWe feature at defective yeti.  5000 words over 5 days, starting tomorrow.  

If you’re like me, however, you’ll get a head start, write for a couple hours, and subsequently say to yourself, “That had to have been at least a good thousand words!”

*Click* Word Count *Click* 555 Words

Honestly, I do have a great deal of respect for writers who have the diligence with which to tailor great novels.  Why, even the novella or short story writer is looked up to by me.  This is because I can’t really imagine having the patience to dwell on the creation of one large, cohesive body of creative work.  Ideas usually flit about my mind with a randomness far too great for such a task.  

I started writing a short story for this week called Petey Pantaloons and the Improbable Purloin.  It was going to be great.  He was going to lose his most prized pantaloons and then go on a great journey to recover them.  Unfortunately, within the first 555 words of the story I managed to make Petey Pantaloons a hyper-active and half-naked drunkard with an addiction to opiates.  So much for that!

So for your reading displeasure, I present to you the rough-draft of the first (and only) 555 words of Petey Pantaloons and the Improbable Purloin.