Sunday Serial:280 x 70, 57 Rabbit in a Pink Cage, By Gill james, lemonade

 Introduction

This collection is a collection of seventy stories, each 280 words. They were inspired by the first picture seen on my Twitter feed on a given day. 

57.  Rabbit in a Pink Cage 

 

Gavin thought he was seeing things. There was a rabbit in a huge pink cage in the middle of the hallway.  It was quite a cute bunny actually mainly black, with a couple of white patches around its ears and nose. Its cage was oh so very pink. It waggled its nose at Gavin.

"Tell me I'm dreaming, Maddy," he called. “I can see a black and white rabbit in a pink cage."

"You're not dreaming, Gav."

"Why?"

"The kids are looking after him over half term. He's house-trained, they say."

"House-trained?"

"Yes, he can be let out and he goes back into his cage to poo."  Maddy was now at the top of the stairs. "Oh, and he doesn't eat the electrical wires like that other one used to."

"When did we agree to this?"

Maddy giggled.  "We didn't. I arrived at school and there was Toby and Marie just standing there. Fait accompli I'm afraid."

"How the fuck did you get him here?"

"On the tram of course. How else?"

Gavin looked at the cage again. It was a wooden sturdy thing. It must have weighed a ton.

"And did you bring his food and stuff.

"Er, no. That's why we’re going shopping."

"We are?"

Toby and Marie burst out of the lounge.  "Daddy, what do you think of Patch? We've got him all week.  Can we go and get him some food and some straw?"

"I guess."

Well they needed to go food shopping anyway. How would a bag of rabbit food and rabbit bedding hurt? He just hoped that Patch wouldn't die on them like the class gerbil had. Always the nightmare with the class pet.  

About the author

Gill James is published by The Red Telephone, Butterfly and Chapeltown.  

She edits CafeLit and writes for the online community news magazine: Talking About My Generation.

She teaches Creative Writing and has an MA in Writing for Children and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing.    

http://www.gilljameswriter.com  

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