Words on Wednesdays - "Toxic"

3 Jan 2013

(from The Write Practice (thewritepractice.com), “words on Wednesdays”. This week's word: toxic)

Arriving home from work, Susan saw the TV had been left on again. Looked like an interview with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Good thing the Toxic Twins had cleaned themselves up years ago, or they wouldn’t be sitting on that couch.

Heading upstairs, she stopped by Brian’s room and knocked. Could he even hear that over the music?

“Yeah?”. Apparently he could.

She opened the door and was greeted by a power chord assault from…   Toxic Holocaust? That’s whose poster was on the wall, anyway. “So, are you going to cut the grass before it gets dark?”

Brian spun his chair around and gave her that snarling dog look. “I’ll do it in a while, okay?”

“Okay”, she said while retreating back into the hallway. Hmmm, he’d mentioned borrowing the car this evening. Maybe that wouldn’t work out so well.

Moving down the hall past Melissa’s room, she heard music again. Was that Britney Spears? Yup, “Toxic”. Susan thought she’d gotten that tune out of her head for good, but now it was back.

Downstairs, the TV now had a news alert about a toxic waste spill out east somewhere. She turned off the TV. Between work and home, “toxic” aptly described the day. Susan wished she could jump in the DeLorean, go back to this morning, and start over!