(A sequel to "Debra's Anniversary") (Fictional story about fictional characters) * Never in a hundred years did Debra Barone dream that the lousy economy would have such a direct and drastic effect on her family; but it had. The economy, coupled with the effects of the digital age, had created a crisis in the Barone household. New York Newsday, where her...
(Fictional story about fictional characters) *** Leonard and Penny were on their way home from dropping his roommate Dr. Sheldon Cooper off at the airport. Sheldon had been forced by CalTech to use some of his accrued vacation time, so he had decided to fly back to Texas to visit his family (especially his beloved MeeMaw) during the holiday season. Penny a...
A tale of complete fiction Brian wondered if there really was some veracity about this theory of karma. Did your deeds, good or bad, really affect your future destiny? He had been a good kid, a good student, a good son for all of his eighteen years and it really did seem like all that good behavior was finally paying off in a big way. As far as he was conce...
(a fictional story about fictional characters) * It had been a rough twelve months for Red Foreman, but through all the trials and tribulations there had been one constant: his totally devoted, loving wife Kitty. He had struggled working for his idiot neighbor, Bob Pinciotti, at his appliance store after the plant had shut down. For one thing, Red was us...
(Fictional story about fictional characters) (This is my interpretation of S1, E6; "The Middle Earth Paradigm") *** The four nerds trudged up the three flights of stairs leading to Apartment 4A, complaining and rehashing their recent thrashing in Paintball at the hands (and guns) of a juvenile bar- mitzvah party team. They were exhausted from toting their...
A tale of fiction about fictional characters. ***** Kitty Foreman was singing softly to herself as she straightened up the basement recreation room where her teenage son Eric and his close-knit group of friends seemed to spend the majority of their free time. It was a beautiful Autumn day outside and all of the kids were still in school on a Friday afterno...
(In season 5, episode 13; Donna hosts a slumber party for herself, Jackie and Annette...this is what should have happened.) Donna and Eric were just beginning to regain the trust of their parents after running off to California without permission during Summer vacation. Donna had accompanied Kelso, much to his dismay, in a cross-country van trip to just g...
A fictional story about fictional characters. ***** It is a fact that sometimes in life things are exactly as they seem; and other times they are not. That the tiny hamlet of Hooterville was a poor, rural, farming community filled with a small population of very good and close-knit friends was true; that the three Bradley girls were virginal, was not. They...
(My interpretation of S8, E5; The Focus Attenuation) (Fictional story about fictional characters) Setting his tray down on the table in the Cal Tech cafeteria, Raj Koothrapalli announced, "I read where someone discovered a way to convert footsteps into electromagnetic energy, so that you can charge your cell phone while walking." "We had that idea years a...
(my interpretation of S 9, E 15 "The Valentino Submergence") (fictional story about fictional characters) The other three nerds were eating lunch in the Cal Tech cafeteria when Sheldon placed his tray on the table and announced, "if any of you are looking for a fun way to spend Valentine's Day, Amy and I are airing our first ever Live episode of Fun With F...