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Old Bob gave a cackle. Another jar of batteries. He picked it up and opened his cupboard. Setting the bottle on the shelf he stood back and admired his collection. He had jar after jar set in rows. Batteries, copper wire, nails, bits and pieces that only he knew what they were. He rubbed his hands together and gave a lunatic’s smile. He shut the door to his prize collection and turned to his kitchen table. Sitting in a rickety chair, Old Bob gave another nasty cackle, opened the booklet and read. The title of the book, “Building Bombs for Dummies”
The Last Chapter 
Those “Dummies” books really cover everything, don’t they?
(BTW, “lunatics smile” needs an apostrophe in “lunatic’s”.)
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thanks! I’ll go change it right now. I was in a bit of a hurry this morning. 🙂
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I know that feeling! Sometimes I just hit “send” on an email and I see a spelling or other mistake. But there’s no bringing it back.
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Some people collect stamps, Old Bob collects bomb parts–what’s so odd about that?
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nothing I thought 🙂
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I love your tiny tales! Great ending to this one 🙂
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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I really need a peek inside your head to see where these ideas come from. 😉 Great story.
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ummm wouldn’t suggest it my friend, it can be a scary place. 🙂
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Nice. Also nice that he had an anglicized name and not the generic Arabic bimb makers name. Oddly, unless he was using them for shrapnel, I’m pretty sure Bob would’t need to use batteries in a dummy built bomb. A battery is just a fail point
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well what can I say Seb? I really don’t know how to make a bomb myself, but you know I just pictured one with batteries for some reason. Hmm do they make bombs with batteries??? Now I suppose is the wrong time to ask that. 😉 And not all crazies come from another country is what I think.
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I thought that was a great story. Good job.
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thank you so much!
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Old Bob just be might a terror in the making. Very well done, and thanks so much for stopping by mine
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thank you and you’re welcome!
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Hi Jackie,
Maybe Old Bob isn’t as big a dummy as he seems. He may have the last cackle! Ron
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maybe, guess we might never know Ron, but that might be a good thing
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Lovely, Jackie! Old Bob sounds like a lunatic! I love the cackling. Well done.
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Thank you! Really enjoyed yours too.
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I enjoyed the cackle as well but of course I cackle myself so go figure. I could be crazy! Well done. I enjoyed it.
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well you know, the ones that cackle they just ain’t right. 😉
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Very clever! Loved it, particularly the ending!
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Thank you Tiny!
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Just like Old Bob to mix the wrong tools from that Dummy Book and blow himself up. Nice work.
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oh lets hope so! ha! Thank you. 🙂
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I’ll have to look for that book. Creative story, Jackie
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thank you! appreciate it!
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Thre’s a dummie book for everything now, isn’t there. But maybe this one doesn’t need to be written.
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I can’t be sure, but I’m hoping there isn’t a dummie book for it. Now a days thought you just never know.
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Nice end 🙂
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thanks! 🙂
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think about changing “Old” Bob to “Ol’ Bob” nice job.
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Am I allowed to disagree? Well, I suppose it depends if Jackie is writing in US or British English. In England, we would use ‘Old Bob’.
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hmmm I didn’t think of that. Thank you!
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Might have a better flow that way, I shall think about it. Thank you!
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no problem.
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I like how he’s keeping all this stuff in his kitchen.
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me too, it just rang of crazy I thought.
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Cackling old bomb-maker, eh?
Nasty 🙂
Well written
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I love reading these prompts! Good work!
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Thanks! They are fun to do! You should join us! It’s great practice for fiction writing!
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Let’s do a children’s book version and call it Bomb Builder Bob. What an exciting time the kids will have wiring items together and watching them explode. I’m sure it would be a best seller in Afghanistan 🙂
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haha! I almost spit my coffee out when I read this. Too funny. Thanks 🙂
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Ted’s (Kaczynski not Strutz) brother? Compulsive collectors are getting short shrift in these stories. Love your voice and the lightness in Bob’s heart as he reds.
Aloha,
Doug
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thank you Doug! Appreciate it
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