The Birthday Present

My best friend Scott came over with a case of Guinness and a brightly wrapped box to help me celebrate my birthday. Although Scott is a few years my junior, we clicked from the first time we met many years ago and because I am an only child I think of him more as the brother I never had. We are watching the first Thor movie again before we go to see the latest incarnation of the superhero. Chris Hemsworth is the perfect male, at least according to Scott.

About halfway through the movie and more than a few brews Scott pipes up. “So dude when are you going to open up your present?” I completely forgot about his gift between the drinking and getting engrossed in the movie so I get the box and start tearing into the paper, wondering what it conceals. Once the paper is off I catch a faint whiff of a very tempting aroma emanating from the box. I open the lid carefully. The strong smell of chocolate playfully seduces my senses and my mouth begins to water as I see a rather plain but delicious looking cake.

“I stopped off at this weird little bakery I found. Never had seen it before but I thought they might have a cake that would work for your birthday. The lady called it a ‘wishing cake’. According to her if you take a bite of the cake and make a wish it will come true but it only works for the birthday dude.”

“Sounds like some kind of made up story to sell the cake.” I take the cake from the box and start to cut it. I pass a piece over to Scott who is sitting on the couch and then sit down in my chair to eat my piece.

“So bro what are you going to wish for?”

“If I tell you it won’t come true… or at least that is what people say.”

“Whatever dude.” Scott sits there eating his cake and watching the movie. What would I wish for? Many thoughts run around in my head, especially the one that I had often entertained before: I always wished Scott really was my brother. That is never going to happen so as I watch him enjoying the action of the movie I find myself wishing that he could have his desire to be like Chris. Wouldn’t that be so cool to have someone like Chris as a bud? Silly thought that I quickly dismiss as I take a bite of the cake. No sooner have I swallowed the cake then I begin to get dizzy and the room seems to be spinning wildly. Thor continues to pummel the bad guys while Scott appears oblivious to what is happening. Everything goes black as I pass out.

Seanday Shorts: Bait and Swap

I chuckled watching the two boys jostle each other as they walked down the street.

It was a good thing I'd done; I'm sure. At first I thought what had happened to me was a curse just destroying everything I touched, but I'd learnt to control it. Instead, I'd turned it around making it a tool for good, at least I thought so.

My heart warmed as I watched Tom--the smaller of the two boys--whisper something into David's ear. I could see David blush, and with a resigned smile he nodded. Tom hugs his friend; lovingly David puts an arm around him and lifts him like a small child. David was always the stronger of the two. Tom just sighed resting a head on David's shoulder.

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Seanday Special: The Doctor's Guardian

The Doctor never admitted to the real reason why the TARDIS's chameleon circuits had 'failed' but I knew why.

The delicate, yet surprisingly small device nestled within the centre console, and I knew exactly where. I'd been a stowaway on the ship for three weeks now, it was easy to hide although small on the outside it was vast on the inside. Many of the 300 rooms of which varied in size were distributed over the seventy floors and sub-basements. I'd stayed clear of the swimming pool on the seventeenth because it was adjacent to where the Doctors current companion stayed. I didn't want to be discovered, not just yet.

The walls shuddered, and a great heaving sound echoed around the cavernous room I'd decided to call my temporary home. A noise I recognised, the TARDIS had materialised; landed whatever you call it.

Slipping down a spiral banister, dropping three floors in a couple of seconds, then a rickety staircase behind a picture of the blue box itself--a short cut that connected the twenty-first and third floors in just nine steps: space folded in on itself--so efficient.

I stepped through the small door at the bottom of the twisted staircase, and turned to look at the mirror it had become. I winced at the cruel scar that etched my face; a souvenir from my time on Phryxus where I fought their wolf-like army.

Turning I admired the great room, where mirrors lined the walls, each framed by gold, imagine Louis XIV and times it by ten. Jogging down to the other end of the room--some sixty feet--I tapped on a console, but I was careful. I knew selecting any of the internal cameras in the control room would alert the Doctor. Cunningly I selected an external view which overlooked the door. I pulled up an ornate chair upholstered in red velvet and watched, and waited.

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Cool Hand Luke

As a thank you gesture he held out his hands in front of him and in acknowledgement I held his hands.

'Thanks for all you have done for me'. Luke stated.

I noted how amazing his hands felt. I could feel the warmth of his heart flowing through his blood vessels. I could also feel how detailed the ridges in his skin were as they felt so deep. I pulled him in closer for a hug. Probably more than he wanted or was expecting... I couldn't manage a reply that was meaningful to him and as I was still holding his hands creating the bond I needed.

'I wish these hands were mine.' I said to him.

He released the hug and moved his hands to my upper arms and shook me a little.

'What do you mean?' He demanded.

'Touching my hands in the way you did has created a special bond between us. You were not to know. However I have been tasked with finding help for one of my friends who is at breaking point. He has found a way to switch bodies with people, he chose me, but I needed to find a third person as the switch had to create 3 points from touching hands. Unwittingly, you have just become the third and your body will become mine.'

'I don't want any part of this freak show.' He retorted.

'My boy just by touching me, your mind is already being reprogrammed to accept this and by the time Alec is here to join us and begin the transformation you will also know the spell and we fully versed with how we are to switch and will he enjoying it.' I explained.

Seanday Shorts: End of Season

"Really Sonny, you think you can carry this off?" Marc asked.

"Hell yeah, do I or do I not look like the school's top lineman? Oh and call me Cameron you ass," Sonny snarled.

Tony held up his hands. "OK big guy," he looked around, "where's the real Cameron?"

"Tied up in the storeroom, hell he freaked out when he came face to face with his double."

"You were able to knock him out?"

"Fuck yeah, caught him by surprise. Took a while to peel his uniform off, but it really gave me a buzz pull it on myself. He stinks, but then I realised that's what I'm meant to smell like now, and that made me hard."

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Motionless

Steve was ill. He has been bitten hundreds of times by whatever breed of mega mosquito that had invaded his private space. There bites were only on his legs but it meant he was finding it difficult to walk. There was about 40 of us in the hotel and they were only biting Steve. He must of tasted so sweet. He knew I had healing powers and asked me to help.

I explained to him that my healing powers only work on myself. I couldn't help others. That presented him with a problem. Steve  needed the help but I couldn't do it. Steve had a solution though that required very little effort. He could temporally place me inside his body whilst I healed it. He would look after mine. It sounded like a great idea.

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