“At first, it looked like an ordinary marble, but it was far from it.”
He looked around the table, that familiar drunken glee in his eyes. I was sick of it.
“Jesus, Ned. Just tell them already.” I had heard this particular gross-out story at least ten times. He always told it after five or six drinks, especially if his audience was female.
“I know,” said the brunette. I bet she sat right up front in his class. One of those who might write him a sonnet that was a barely veiled come-on. One semester I found a poem in his briefcase in a girl’s balloon handwriting about a writhing snake entwining her legs. Jesus.
This brunette put her finger in her mouth in a way she probably thought was sexy, stared at him.
He sipped his whiskey, leering. “Do you now?”
She nodded. She really was very pretty, but much too young. “It was a glass eye. From the motorcyclist. It popped out when the truck hit him.”
He pointed at her, smiled hugely. “A+ for Britt! That’s exactly what it was!”
Britt. I bet it was short for Brittney. Jesus.
I knew I’d have trouble with this one.
For Mondays Finish the Story
LOL…. I know these people! The leering professor and the gullible student.. Well done!
Your story made me think of that Indiana Jones movie where the gal had the message painted on her eyelids. Well done J! Thanks for another contribution to the Mondays Finish the Story challenge. Be well… ^..^
I was thinking the same thing – about the Indiana Jones movie. Love the idea of a glass eye. Very inventive!
Didn’t see that one coming. :-)
DJ
What I want to know is, who is the narrator? Jealous spouse? Fellow colleague disgusted with Professor Sexy (awesome character name, by the way)? And re: the last sentence, “I knew I’d have trouble with this one.” Who is the trouble? Professor Sexy or Britt?
The narrator is Mrs Professor. There have been other student dalliances, suspected but perhaps unproven, and Britt is the latest.
A glass eye never thought of that one
I think she should keep a close eye (is that a pun?) on this one…
Great twist.
The trials and tribulations of being the spouse of Professor Sexy! Great story. :)
Oh my the image of a glass eye popping out of him when the truck hit him. LOL! Great story!
A really brilliant surprise embedded in a great tale ~ Well written :)
I think the Professor might need a glass eye in the near future the way the narrator (his wife I’m assuming) is watching him like a hawk. Nicely done story.
The old glass eyeball trick to win the girl. Seen it work a dozen times? Great story!