Jacket Blurb #2
Our critique group meets in a bookstore, and that inspired this week’s writing prompt. We were each assigned the title of an existing science fiction novel we had not read, and had to write the exciting synopsis for the back cover.
Kent’s assigned novel was Friends Come in Boxes
Pop goes the weasel.
Timmy shivered in darkness, a darkness in his own mind. A darkness reaching for his soul.
Pop goes the weasel.
Years before, he’d had the courage to turn the handle and release the jaunty little tune. To summon the smiling clown. And ever since, it had taken all his courage just to walk outside. Because now he knew.
Pop goes the weasel.
They say that friends come in boxes. But they don’t say whose.