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Welcome To The Doll House<br />
A Tales From Wilton Manors Publication<br />
Trouble In The Dreamhouse 2<br />
Zine 6 (<strong>2015</strong>-<strong>10</strong>)
I’ll Make You A Sandwich All Right (Part 2)<br />
The Aftermath<br />
-‐ Short Story Series by DeAnna Majors<br />
Barbie sits at the table. Ken’s lifeless body still<br />
remains. Barbie snaps out of her reverie when she<br />
hears the chirp of the doorbell. It’s Skipper.<br />
“What the fuck, Barbie”, she asks. A cigarette dangles<br />
from her lips, as a toddler clings to her legs. Behind<br />
her, five more small children fight, fuss, and whine.<br />
“I said stop it dammit”, she exclaims.<br />
Barbie opens the door a little wider to let the brood<br />
in.<br />
“I just couldn’t do it anymore, Skip.”<br />
“I told you from the beginning that he was just a big<br />
douche bag. No one ever listens to Skipper though. If<br />
there was a Ph. D. in picking shitty men you know I’d<br />
have one from an Ivy League, sis.”<br />
They walk into the kitchen. Barbie sighs heavily as<br />
Skipper nudges Ken’s foot with the toe of her super<br />
slutty high heel shoe.
“Well you certainly did a number on him. Hey, I<br />
know who you can call. Dougie quit cutting your<br />
sister’s hair!”<br />
Barbie knows immediately whom Skipper is talking<br />
about. She takes a smoke from Skipper’s pack.<br />
“It’s been a long time. Do you really think he would<br />
come?”<br />
“Girl, that boy loves you like a fat kid loves cake. Of<br />
course he’ll come.”<br />
Skipper stamps out her cigarette into Ken’s palm.<br />
“I’ll make the call,” Skipper says as she retrieves the<br />
older kids and makes to work rolling Ken’s body up<br />
in one of the pretty, pink rugs.<br />
“No. I’ll call him.” Barbie scrunches up her pretty,<br />
plastic nose as she reaches for her phone. Barbie’s<br />
world is about to get a whole lot dirtier.<br />
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Barbie scrubs at the walls and floors where Ken’s<br />
body bled out. The door bells chirps again.<br />
“Hey, Skip? Could you get that,” Barbie yells from the<br />
kitchen?<br />
After a few moments she senses a presence in the<br />
room. She looks up. Her breath catches in her throat.<br />
“Well...I...I...,” Barbie stammers. “So, how was it...?”<br />
“So how’s...,” Duke interrupts her. “Yeah.”<br />
Convicted of war crimes, the leader of the infamous<br />
mercenary group, G.I. Joe, has been in prison for the<br />
last five years. Barbie met Ken while he was in lock<br />
up, and she never looked back. Little did Barbie<br />
know, she had picked the greater of two evils.<br />
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Barbie, Skipper, and Duke sit in Barbie’s, once again,<br />
clean, perfect, pretty, plastic kitchen. Barbie and<br />
Duke pretender to not notice, well, each other<br />
noticing the other. Skipper chain-‐smokes.<br />
“Bastard had what was coming to him.”<br />
“It’s not pretty on the inside, Barbie,” Duke looks at<br />
Barbie with concern.<br />
“I guess it’s settled then.”<br />
Barbie is going on the run.<br />
----------<br />
It’s early. Barbie sits at the table. She glances around<br />
at her perfect Malibu dream house. Tears run down<br />
her pretty plastic face.<br />
Duke clears his throat as he enters the kitchen. “Are<br />
you ready?”<br />
“Let’s do this.”<br />
To Be Continued...
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