SUN SHORT #1 - Last Customer of The Year
Snow falls outside the Starlight City Bookstore on New Year’s Eve as the two owners Jessica Powell & Ivan Palac chat amongst themselves, both waiting for the last customer of the year to finish shopping so they can close up the store.
“Uh sure, I don’t want to pressure you,” Powell lies before continuing, “But it is already 10 minutes passed since we usually close our business so if you don’t mind making your selection already.”
“I’m looking!” The customer groans.
Ivan sits in his wheelchair behind the counter contemplating just how long this customer is going to take, minutes? Hours? The whole rest of the year? Every second the customer takes looking for books, the more the owners’ patience wears bare.
Then after what seems like eons, a miracle occurs.
The customer makes a decision.
“You guys don’t have any good books,” the customer bickers as he makes his way out of the bookstore.
As the doors close, Ivan Palac & Jessica Powell are left with one thought; this was their last customer of the year, and hopefully the last time they’ll have to deal with them.
SUN SHORT #2 - The Gym’s Best Time of Year
“How many sets have you done, Peasant?” Garry Jackingson, an old balding yet muscular man with a long gray beard and black designer tracksuit, asks.
The person he’s asking is Christopher Wrinkle, a member of the gym ‘Dawnbreak Health & Fitness Center’ which Garry owns. Christopher has just finished doing some who just got done doing some squats.
“Oh it’s my fifteenth set,” Christopher responds as he puts away the weights, “Also why’re you calling me broke?”
“Because boy,” Garry whistles as he shows off his new golden tooth implants, chrome rings, and overly expensive watch, “my whole outfit costs more than what you’ll make in your entire life.”
“Uh….okay?” Christopher remarks.
Garry Jackingson then whistles as he walks away to flex his outfit to all of the other people working out in the gym. Christopher stands there confused until a personal trainer and boxing coach of the gym, Francisco Champion, walks over to him.
“Don’t worry about the boss,” Francisco remarks, “he just gets like this around New Year’s due to how much money we make this month. Though he tends to blow it all away before February can even come.”
“It’s fine, my grandpa can be a bit strange at times but that doesn’t mean I don’t love him,” Christopher remarks.
“Oh how sweet of you,” Francisco smiles, “But yeah don’t worry we aren’t all as money-hungry as our boss.”
“Okay, I gotta get going but see you next year,” Christopher says as he leaves the gym.
“Happy New Year!” Francisco waves.
Though as soon as the doors to the gym close and Christopher has left, Francisco Champion looks at his designer black tracksuit, chrome rings, Gucci shoes, and a golden watch.
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“Yeah, I’m not as money hungry as my boss“ Francisco Champion lies to himself, “I didn’t get any gold teeth.”
SUN SHORT #3 - Swallow [Content Warning: Disturbing Imagery]
Inside The Starlight City Correction Center, a bunch of the inmates are eating their sloppily put-together meals in the cafeteria. Everyone’s wearing orange prison jumpsuits, some of them are in handcuffs while others are eating freely. The only utensil they’ve been given is a dull spoon.
And the person to thank for them getting rid of the forks and knives is the inmate Gabriel Griffon; a 20-year-old with white skin, short black hair, a slim yet muscular physique, and a charming smile that could make anyone’s heart skip a beat.
Gabriel Griffon is sitting at a table opposing another nervous inmate. Gabriel scoops up the liquidy mashed potatoes off his plate onto his spoon and puts it into his mouth.
“These mashed potatoes are really bad, but it's not like they’re going to listen to me about all of that,” Gabriel sighs.
The inmate he’s sitting next to is completely silent.
“Y’know, I didn’t even harm those two that badly, yet they locked me up here with you animals.” Gabriel remarks, “At the very least they could have allowed me to help cook in the kitchen, I’m a pretty damn good cook y’know.”
The inmate Gabriel Griffon is sitting with nods as he sweats. He glances away from Gabriel.
“Hey,” Gabriel Griffon utters, causing the inmate to feel a chill run down his spine, “You haven’t even eaten anything of your plate yet, you know how hard the cooks work to make food for us?”
The inmate is silent not knowing what to do however Gabriel grabs him by the shirt and asks, “Do you want to end up like those other guys?”
The inmate shakes his head profusely as behind him lays the unconscious bodies of several other inmates, all of them being knocked out by Gabriel Griffon for the most absurd of reasons. The inmate looks at the guards to see if they’ll help, but like always they’re pretending not to notice Griffon’s antics.
“What are you waiting for, eat up,” Gabriel Griffon remarks with a twisted grin on his face.
After some hesitation, the inmate puts his spoon onto his mashed potatoes, which are filled with the teeth of other inmates, shakingly lifts it up towards his mouth, and takes a bite.
“Good,” Gabriel Griffon remarks, “You should keep on eating, this is the last meal you’ll have of the year. You wouldn’t want it to go to waste?”
Fearing for the worse, the inmate continues to shovel the mashed potatoes into his mouth.
“Y’know, my sentence ends in the summer so I won’t be able to give you your last meal for next year,” Gabriel Griffon sighs before commanding, “Now what are you waiting for, chew it up and swallow?”
The inmate looks around trying to see a way out of this predicament, for anyone to come and help him.
Nobody comes to help him.
So with some hesitation, and sweat dripping down his neck, the inmate is left with only one option left…
CRUNCH
SUN SHORT #4 - Starting The New Year On An Interesting Foot.
CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH!
“Oh this sushi is so good,” X Locke moans as he chews a spicy crunchy crab roll, “Where’d you guys even find this place?”
X Locke, a junior at Starlight High, has his messy blonde hair covering his eyes as bits of rice are stuck to his stubble. He’s wearing a light brown cardigan over a black turtleneck, washed black cargo pants, green Converse shoes, and a necklace with an ‘X’ symbol.
He’s sitting with three others in a traditional Japanese-styled sushi restaurant with the kitchen being in the middle that can be viewed by everyone. On one of the walls is a giant fish tank with several different fish swimming about it. The three others at the table are three of his teachers; 20-something Ray Ramirez the teacher’s aide, 20-something Sam Penningberg the biology teacher, & 20-something Zesti Champion the culinary teacher.
“One of my former classmates is a part of the family that owns this place,” Zesti Champion remarks before asking, “And how did you even come here?”
“Oh I asked Ray and he said yes,” X replies.
“I did?” Ray groans surprised.
“Yep, you may have had headphones in though” X teases.
“Well I would say that you couldn’t be here because other teachers would be showing up,” Penningberg begins to say, “But it’s only just us three tonight.”
“Really? I thought Amnestor and Jefferson were coming,” Zesti remarks.
“Amnestor said his wife surprised him with a vacation, and Jefferson probably forgot though I’m glad he isn’t showing up,” Ray remarks as he pours himself a glass of water, “the dude’s a total dick.”
X, Zesti, & Penningberg are all silent as Ray continues to go on his rant, “I mean the guy’s so full of himself because he’s on the principal’s good side. I swear if I met him back in the day I’d make him eat his words-”
“Ahem,” a voice behind Ray beckons.
Ray Ramirez is silent as he slowly turns around to see the math teacher, Wilsten Jefferson, standing there with a look of pure rage on his face.
Ray is silent for a moment before smirking and giving a not-so-family-friendly hand gesture towards Jefferson, “I said what I said, what are you gonna do about it?”
“Oh nothing,” Jefferson remarks as he starts to walk away, “It’s just that I don’t think the principal would like to keep you at this job next year if he heard what you just said.”
Ray’s eyes widen as he hears the threat of losing his job and he quickly tries to apologize and leaves the table, all the while X leans over the table and steals some of Ray Ramirez’s sushi.
“Well this isn’t exactly the way I would have liked to start it off but happy New Year,” Penningberg chuckles as he lifts his glass towards Zesti.
“Happy New Year to you too Pennies,” Zesti sighs as the two clank glasses.
Happy Holidays & See You Next Year!
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