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About the Author: Jude Roy's stories have appeared in Mystery Weekly, Flash Bang Mysteries, MystericalE, The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, and numerous other magazines. His novels are available on Amazon.com.
J.D. sat in the booth across from Chet and watched as he meticulously picked apart the label on his beer bottle.
“All I’m saying is this old lady got money,” Chet said, meeting J.D.’s eyes. He wore a faded and dirty Redman cap pulled low. “When she shits, she shits green. Know what I mean?”
“So what are you talking about, a Social Security check?”
“No, man. I’m talking about bucks. I mean big bucks. I heard that she’s worth right at a million.”
“So she’s got dough in the bank. What are you going to do? Rob a bank?”
“That’s not what I heard. I heard she keeps it all in her mattress.”
“How stupid can you be? People don’t do that anymore, Chet, especially that kind of money.”
“Well, that’s what I was told.”
“And who told you this?”
“Hadlee, my girlfriend, works for the Student Help Center where the old lady volunteers. They get local businesses to donate money that they use to help students with tuition and stuff like that. She helps her out too, you know, house cleaning and stuff. She was making the bed, and noticed the mattress was lumpy and kinda uncomfortable.”
“Was she making the bed or sleeping on it?”
“Hell, I don’t know. Probably lying on it, dreaming about acting or shit like that. She wants to be a movie star. Anyway, she started feeling around the mattress, and she said it felt like bundles of money.”
This did not end the way I expected it to! I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. You went that extra step, and it made for a better story.
Great ending, made me laugh. Beautifully unexpected.. I really enjoyed that story, the characters were well drawn and the plot made sense.
:) Excellent! Great dialogue and characters. I truly enjoyed the story! Perfect ending! I laughed...
The mattress of course :-))) Fantastic job.
Loved The Money Mattress. Great story, no violence, and a very funny ending
This was a great story. I laughed along with J.D.
Thank you, everybody, for your comments. Happy you enjoyed it.
This was great! Loved it!
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