Story 1 continued

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Darryl brandished a wire hanger until she released John. When they told her of their mission, she agreed to ensure that Darryl and John reached their goal. She gave them each a jar of Lustre-Cream and sent them whirling off through time again. When everything stopped spinning, they were confronted with the glassy-eyed stare of Cricket, the talking doll.



"Intruders!" shrieked Cricket. "Are you friend, or foe?"
"Friend," assured Darryl hastily.
"Are you sure about that?" murmered John.
Cricket looked as skeptical as an omni-smiling doll could.  "You must prove yourselves to me by giving me a rare and unusual token of your esteem! I demand that you give me..."

Comments

[leahfu.livejournal.com]

Oh god. The doll of my nightmares. Please kill her with fire.

My mom was not happy that she had to leave mine on a bench somewhere one night. My sister and I refused to get into the van with her after the part that held her eyeballs popped out and wouldn't pop back in. I had already been terrified of her for a while at that time and I have no idea why she was in the van with us.

[promisemewings.livejournal.com]

AAAAH OH MY GOD. I had a similar experience with the Baby Talk doll. The Baby Talk doll just went off talking and talking one night and was not activated, and my poor dad had to dismantle the doll to take the voice mechanism out. He and my mom said I could still play with her, but ha ha...no. It just sat in my toybox untouched because I was too freaked out by talking dolls.

Which is why I never got Cricket.

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

That is a great anecdote and would make for a funny sitcom episode!

[vodkabeforenoon.livejournal.com]

I still have her in working order in my closet. I took really good care of my things...I also have the original Teddy Ruxpin.

[indigocrow.livejournal.com]

I loved this doll, until the night she started talking like Satan. Like Teddy Ruxpin when the batteries start to die and slow down the demon voice that comes out of these toys is the stuff of nightmares.

[wings-unfurling.livejournal.com]

I had this darn doll and she did that demon voice one night. I screamed bloody murder after hiding under my blankets because I was SURE she was going to walk across the room and kill me. After that my mom hated me for not ever putting batteries in her again.

I also became vigilant about taking the batteries out of my Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby if I wasn't using them.

Cricket always sort of creeped me out even before that night, but I liked TR a lot. Go figure.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

GOOD GOD.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

"....My name is Talky Tina and I don't think I like you....."