Thursday, September 9, 2021

The Fun House Mirror

A more horrible way to die cannot be imagined ! After the tragedy the

    Rocky Point Amusement Park was " CLOSED FOR THE SEASON ". The state flag

    was flown at half mast for a week. On a warm , clear , unusually starry

    night 20 recent Warwick High School graduates perished in a suspicious

    fire - that became a Holocaust - in the popular " House of Horrors " -

    also known as the " Fun House ". The Queen of the Prom  , Virginia Engley,

    had to be identified by her dental X-rays. They all were having so much

    fun with the gypsy fortune teller ( who told a would be victim to " anoint "

    himself in the ocean waters near a crumbled ruin of a church ) - the penny

    arcade, the Ferris Wheel, the Wild Cat , the rocket ship- pop corn, ice cream,

    cotton candy , lemon aid, even a little Narragansett beer on the sly - so

    much fun that they wanted to culminate the memorable  " last fling of

    youth " night with  a thrilling, chilling ride through the " House of

    Horrors ". In five minutes their screams could be heard   from boats in

    the bay.

         A bit of the " Fun House" mirror was retrieved by an eccentric young

    man who to discovered it had weird properties. It helped him to have his

    way on dates with reluctant virgins.

       Never underestimate a girl's vanity!  That is what the mirror taught

    him. One night he was with  pretty but hard to get Shelly. He drove her

    to an off the beaten tract country road in Foster .

       " You are really looking your gorgeous best tonight honey ", he told

    her. Then he showed her the  " magic mirror ". Looking into it, she saw

    her  lovely face at its absolute loveliness. Her vanity was flattered.

        It made her " horny " just looking at herself. But that was only part 1

    of the eccentric young man's seduction. After kissing her face for a few

    minutes, he showed her the " magic mirror " again .

          She screamed ! She was now looking at a very old lady who could only

    be her future aged and unlovely self.

          He whispered her ear how the hideous aging process could be arrested

    and sometimes even reversed. He unzipped his zipper.He got what he wanted

    from her. He drove her home without so much as a  perfunctory good night

    kiss. Alone in the car he viewed himself in the " magic mirror ". He was

    now looking at a skull !

        Driving back to his one room residence, his 20 year old Chevrolet

    collided with a tractor trailer truck. He was dead on arrival at Roger

    Williams Hospital. Nobody claimed the body.

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