“The Cow Jumped Over the Moon” from Holden’s point of view. You would have had to read “The Catcher in the Rye” to understand his mannerisms.
Let me tell ya ‘bout the other day when some random kid told me the oddest story. I was just sitting around minding my own business and all when the kid came up to me and just started talking. He said, “Hey diddle diddle.” I guess he thought my name was Diddle or maybe he had the wrong person or something but he just kept on talking. He talked ‘bout the most random things too. First he mentioned a cat and a goddam fiddle but nothing about ‘em. That really kills me when people don’t finish their sentences. Then he talked about some cow that jumped over the moon.
By then I thought he was nuts because everyone knows it’s impossible for a cow to jump over the damn moon. He had to be a moron to believe that sort of crap. Why was he even telling me this stuff? I didn’t even know the kid for Chrissake. Anyway then he told me that the little dog laughed. Dogs can’t laugh. Even if they could I don’t understand why they would laugh at that considering it wasn’t even one bit funny. Boy when he told me that the dish ran away with the spoon I nearly lost it and almost started up a fight with the kid but decided it wasn’t worth fighting with someone crazy like him.
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