American Gremlins

Orange-State misadventure involving unkept creature-pets gifted renders an Earth-hologram in this adaptation of the 1984 Joe Dante classic about life/superstition.

A fanfiction of that original pet-care gem Gremlins (Joe Dante). Thanks so much for reading, 

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AMLAN: Miami-life, two grad-pals; didn't expect this Gremlins pet gift, man!

MARCUS: Seems we've become social-media diplomacy for creature-wisdom.

AMLAN: Surely, Marcus; sounds like Homeland bound superstitions for love.

MARCUS: The Gremlin's extremely cute/tiny, but we can't feed post-midnight.

AMLAN: The sage who gifted us the creature-for-life said it'll mutate on err.

MARCUS: Facebook like (ok).

Amlan and Marcus, pals from Dartmouth, had settled (nicely) into their Orange-State (Miami, Florida) post-grad lifestyle(s) and shared a studio apartment in which they'd make sports-writings and bring home potential bachelorettes (for wives?) and were generally eager to become 'normal' Americans of the 21st-Century Earth of those 'incomplete-distances' readings to all things commercial/secure/sane. However, the gift of the Gremlin-pet, from a Chinese sage during an eatery-visit on Thursday evening, brought them to a newfound respect for Western worldly treasure-life consciousness tempered with simplified social/human dialysis of the Ego (hmmm). This was Facebook like (sure).

AMLAN: I made a mistake is all, man!

MARCUS: You fed it at 12:01 am?

AMLAN: I was running-late, got drunk, passed-out and cooked in a hurry, man.

MARCUS: You fed it at 12:01 am?

AMLAN: I didn't know what to do...I should quit beer, Marcus (damn).

MARCUS: The Gremlin ate your Thai-curry then...and then multiplied into 2.

AMLAN: Still waiting for one of these Gremlins to mutate, like the sage said!

MARCUS: Damn (not Facebook like, pal).

The Gremlin, upon being fed post-midnight multiplied not once, not twice, but thrice...into 4 total Gremlins and only the original did not mutate (wow). The mutant-Gremlins were more like hideous trolls with an evil visage, and they simply brought terror that Xmas season, first in front of a fake-snow display for Christmas carolers in bundled wintry outfits/costumes in sunny Miami one evening that holiday-season from Hell. This was what the Troll-Gremlins did, before pillaging the Orange-State shopping-complex (damn).

AMLAN: The sage consulted for me and told me the Trolls fear HCL (acid!).

MARCUS: We've no choice now, man...let's load water-guns with the solution!

AMLAN: Bureau line for heroics for Hell, Marcus (damn, ok).

MARCUS: Not Facebook like.

AMLAN: Just splash their ugly-feet (ok).

MARCUS: What if we fail...again?

AMLAN: No 'normal' American life on Earth (for us at least).

MARCUS: Great (ok).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)