Mondegreen - a short story

Mondegreen (Fiction 101 Series) 

On an arid Saturday, after Mercy finished brushing her horse, she filled her garage with a static-filled song from the seventies as she worked on her Harley. She sang along, “Excuse me while I kiss this guy,” she teased the passing neighbor’s husband.

He just shook his head.

The wife wasn’t thrilled and snapped a correction, “It’s ‘the sky,’ you stupid girl. Hendrix used to lean in – on the stage.” She pointed at her, then snatched her husband’s arm.

Mercy rolled her eyes. She saw the world as a better place when she applied what she called Mercy’s Rules to Life.

(From Mercy, Chapter Twelve of Hawktown, The Blank)

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 A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase - most commonly a song lyric or poem - that results in a new, similar-sounding phrase that makes some kind of sense to the listener. Unlike simple gibberish, a true mondegreen is a plausible-sounding substitute that often tells a completely different, sometimes humorous, story than the original. (Wikipedia)

April 1958 - a short story

April 1958 (Fiction 101 Series)

April sat up in her desk. Her teacher asked for the second time. Two was all the times the teacher allowed before being sent to the Principal’s Office. So, April sat up. This only gave her a better view out the window. From the second floor, she could see out her mystery window. Now she remembered. Her mystery window provided her an “A” on her last theme. She imagined a mushroom cloud erupt and instantly collapse, replaced by a man on a white cloud. She wrote a new theme about her collapsing fear. When will this take place? She asked herself. 

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"[The angels] said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.'" - Acts 1:11