Eccles' Stories

                               As we open this story we find Thunder in a recliner, wearing a lavender robe, and  smoking his pipe.   All of a sudden he receives a call on his cell phone.  Thunder picks up his cell phone and says, "This is Thunder.  Who is this?  What is your purpose for calling?"                              The voice on the other end said, "This is Smokey the Cat, and I would like a little  financial help becoming the next president of the United States.  While you may question my ability to become the next President of the United States, I figure it is about time that another animal other than  the naked ape should run the country.  Since everyone else is throwing their hat into the race why not a cat?   After all any animal could do better than the Republ...

                          One Sunday morning as Jimmy and Thunder was dressed up and ready to go to their separate  churches.  Chucko (the ape) let them know that on that particular Sunday they would not be going to church.   For they had to travel to New York City, to hold a meeting for the stockholders of Universal Pizza.  At which  point Thunder started to whimper.                          Thunder's Mother and Jimmy tried to comfort Thunder as Chucko gave him his chewable  psych medication.   Thunder just said; "You all do not understand that in the big city they drive like wild, crazy, animals.   I've heard tell that at times they even make a lane out of the sidewalk.   The difference with the crazy  animals in NYC, and the ones I see in therapy, is the ones I see in therapy are under s...

                           Jimmy walks in to find his friend Thunder reading a book about football.  Now to Jimmy this is odd for Thunder never cared much for football.  In fact as far as books go Thunder only read the  historical ones.  So, Jimmy inquired as to why he was reading a book on football.              Thunders reply to this was, "that the book he was reading was on the history of football.  I am reading it in hopes that I might understand why people want to watch a sport where one team is out to  harm the other team.  Afterall, there is already the international sport of soccer.  A sport where they do not harm each other so much.  Football seems to me to be a throwback to the gladiators!  If that be the  case I'd rather stay with the international game of soccer, it is safer that way."         ...

                                                          The 25th day of May is the real Thunder's birthday                                                        so part of celebrating his birthdate I'm writing this  story.                                                   It was eight O'clock in the morning when Thunder's butler,                     Chucko  (the ape) came into the room serving Thunder breakfast in bed.  Thunder                     asked, why he was bei...

            Vacation time, what is it really?  Is it not something for the upper-class or those who are rich  only? When I was young, I was taught that it was a time to go visit family or go to church meetings.   For some reason the church meetings have ceased to be for me.  I do, however still visit my one  surviving parent once a year.             Yet I see some families go here there and yon.  I know that for myself one day taking a vacation will mean staying at home by myself.  To go to another country is possible for only a few, but not for  me.  For me vacation time will soon come to an end.   For when my Papa passes away where will I go  on vacation?               Then again there is the magnificent places I go when reading or writing stories.  These  vacations are created by the mind.  In the vacation to th...

  Thunder's Mother             As we open our story up we find a old white dog with apricot spots getting out of a checkered  cab.     The cabbie gets seven bags out of the taxi and carries them out for the old dog.  The old dog moves her hat around on top of her head as all old dogs do.  Chucko (the butler) greets her at the door  asking her what her name is, as well as what her business was.               The old dog pounded her walking stick into the Cobblestone Pavement.  She then stated, "Look here you overgrown ape, I have come over six hundred miles by bus to see my son, Thunder.  I demand  to see him now!  Do I make myself understood, sonny?"               Chucko let her in all the while being beaten up by an old dog.  While all this was going on he  was attempting to make a call to Thunder.  Thunder said t...

          It was a sunny day out nothing like the morning before.  Yet later as the day went by clouds  gathered over head.  No rain came out of those clouds it just became dark.  Then as I went on social  media I got news from our Elder at church that a dear old friend of mine had passed on.          It was not unexpected for she had been sick for many a year.  As Solomon had said in Ecclesiastes 3:2 "there is a time to be born, and a time to die."  This was our dear friends time to die.  Her husband  had died a month ago, and perhaps now she saw no reason to go on living as she was.  She just wanted to go home, and now she was at home with God.             As I talked with my father about our dear friends death I learned his sister was shutting down.  I was told that the family was putting her on hospice, to put it plain and simple it was almost time f...