22 april 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2714: dead clown storage
“So, what is a song like 'Dead Clown Storage' even about – and I'm not asking for a friend, I'm asking for me because … well, let's just say I know a few people.”
“Yeah, but, Robert and Thalia Ludlow your big cousins are adopting you, so you get new parents and a new inheritance, so you don't have to even worry about it.”
Ten-year-old Glendella Ludlow literally passed out from relief into the arms of eleven-year-old Velma Trent, and Mrs. Velma Stepforth, grandmother to the younger Velma, just shook her head before coming to get the fainted little girl.
“Yeah, that's why us old folks have to get and keep our lives together – I'm not trying to be featured in 'Dead Clown Storage,'” Mr. Thomas Stepforth, husband to Big Velma, grandfather to little Velma, said as he came with water and smelling salts.
“Yes, because this is apparently very dangerous to little children!” little Velma said before her mother, Mrs. Melissa Stepforth Trent came to embrace and comfort her.
Little Velma's big brother, Melvin Trent, was doing his final draft of the beat sets for a documentary main theme that was being independently released for Halloween 2020 about one of Lofton County's true horror stories: the shocking downfall and death of Florian Grey, and the things that were found in his house afterward … all that was revealed about his double life, and the blindness to evil in the county where he lived.
“I mean, the documentary is definitely right at the edge of NC-17 in terms of ratings, but they are hoping to squeak by with an R rating and so called me because if I produce a song it's gotta be family-friendly – go figure,” Melvin said about it.
“Look at it as your song will tell the story to the masses, and those who want the dirty details can get the documentary. You're going to make way more money because of that, and a lot more people will get the message,” Sgt. Vincent Trent said.
“The older I get, the smarter you become, Dad,” Melvin said.
“And you're just 21 and I'm just 45 – keep living,” Sgt. Trent said. “You're going to be a rich super genius, listening to me!”
The opening bars to this song would soon be heard around the world because the trailer for 'The Double Life of Florian Grey' would dovetail with events already happening in Lofton County to which others had turned a blind eye for too long …
“Dead clown storage: that's an end to a life
When the lies lay down and the truth runs rife.
See, 'look the either way ' only gets you so far:
Reality will crush you and your big clown car.”
Melvin Trent had written the anthem for the events to come … that was just a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Glendella Ludlow woke up, got hydrated, and got carried home to rest by the adoptive father from whom she would inherit: Capt. Robert Edward Ludlow Sr.
“No more clowns and clowning for me – thank you, Jesus!” she said before going to sleep for the rest of the afternoon.