Two Headed Horse Tails

The Half-Life of Magnets

Minds that don’t sleep

It’s nap time, but he’s in her head.

Why does she keep meeting with her ex-husband?

He’s always so pompous and professorial. Evolutionary psycho-biology or the crème in the cappuccino, it doesn’t matter; his tone drives her mad.

That they’re two of the few telepaths in Dallas probably captures it.

She tries to roll over, tuck a thin pillow between her knees. What’s he saying now? Something about mischief-making anteater-bears explaining thug life in Northern Wales?

How typical! He never was in Northern Wales. And thug life? Seriously? He must have listened to psychedelic rap again.

That’s it!

If he wants to play, he’s gonna get some. Her Ph.D. dissertation was about Polar Bears’ funeral rituals.

When Lydia completed unloading on Henrik, his headache had charlie-horses. What was her point about snow-baths and polar bears not hybernating? Did she even realize the myrmecophaga wasn’t a bear? It was a miracle she’d ever attracted him.

I feel so light now, this nap’s going to be awesome. Lydia dreams. It’s romantic. Night-movies with Henrik. She can’t help it.

Yeah. Now I remember why I ever got attracted to her. Her dreams were always the best.

This story was co-written by Fox Kerry and Smillew Rahcuef.

We call the concept the Two Headed Horse Tails.

As Fox describes it, Two Headed Horse Tails can be a tug of war. Two people are trying to get a tale into the corral, sometimes even against each other’s will.

Here are the rules:

• 200 words total.
• Each person gets 40 words for their paragraph/portion, where whoever starts a story would get 1,3,5 (120 words), and the second would get 2,4 (80 words).
• And they can switch back and forth as to who starts it.

What about finding yourself another horse writer (!) and giving it a try?