Mr. Tucker & Me: A Short Story
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Gregor Xane
Mr. Tucker lives in the woods out back. He spends his nights in an abandoned recliner, watching a TV encased in a weatherproof enclosure. Hundreds of eyes flicker in the darkness around him—his followers—hypnotized by the flickering screen. They watch and they learn.
Mr. Tucker lives in the woods out back. He spends his nights in an abandoned recliner, watching a TV encased in a weatherproof enclosure. Hundreds of eyes flicker in the darkness around him—his followers—hypnotized by the flickering screen.
They watch and they learn.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00QZ3PC68
Publish date: 2014-12-12
Publisher: new dollar pulp
Pages no: 16
Edition language: English
This short story starts oddly enough - with a man having befriended an intelligent squirrel, who developed his smarts through watching a TV the man never bothered to shut off for years - and goes straight to Weirdsville from there. It's all written very matter-of-factly, and it's all over with very ...
What to say, what to say? This short story was wonderfully weird! I'm not entirely sure how to explain myself other than to say that I had fun reading this. A man, his amazing squirrel sidekick, and all sorts of zany events. What more could a girl ask for in a short story?
Another short story that I read on Christmas, a science fiction tale of squirrels and what might happen if they were able to learn as humans do. When a TV is left in an enclosed space in the woods, Mr. Tucker, a squirrel and his other squirrel followers take to watching it and learning from it. Mr...
An entertainingly weird and wonderful tale of a man and his squirrel.
A Sunday drive gone sideways. Hydroponic gyro meat, pickled rope baloney, three eyed slug people and a squirrel named Mr. Tucker. Yep. A very strange and very damn good short from Gregor Xane.