Okay, usually when I sit down to write it's for the long hall, I mean I go for writing long stories where I can create worlds and create changing charictors. However I do write a couple of stories for my brother and what I'm going to post here is one of them. It isn't all that great, like I said, writing short stories really isn't my thing.

Kayla sat in front of the fireplace and dozed slightly, her feet up on a stool. She wasn’t young anymore, seventy this next summer and her hair had long since turned white. Still she got around enough to do some gardening and other such stuff but even she was forced to admit that she didn’t get around as quickly as she once had.
It was quickly getting to be Christmas and as always around this time of year she started to think about family and such things. Most of that time was spent wondering how it was that her siblings, who had once been so easy to shop for, now left her at a lose. Her brother for instance at one time would have been overjoyed with a train set; now, she looked down at her list of what people wanted. “An Information Transporter,” they were commonly called IT and Kayla was sure that she didn’t approve of them. For one thing they cost a couple hundred dollars. Oh yes, at one time Aidan had been very easy to please.

Once she had spent a summer with her mother down in Florida. It had been an unbearably and probably dangerously hot day when her brother Aidan had come into her room.
“Read me a book?” he asked in his cutest voice, the one he only used when he wanted something. Kayla had squinted at the cover of the book and groaned. If she had a nightmare back in those days it was reading The Ball That Bounced for the rest of her life.
“I don’t want to read the ball book again but I will tell you a story.”
“I don’t want a story I want the ball book,” said Aidan going from cute to petulant in five seconds.
“I am not going to read The Ball That Bounced again,” said Kayla firmly. What she would never realize was that The Ball That Bounced Again was the name of the sequel of the very volume that Aidan was trying to convince her to read.
“Okay, I’ll take a story,” Aidan said still a little sulky.
“Smart kid,” she pulled him up onto her lap with a groan and begin.

Aidan rode his bike up and down the sidewalk in front of the house. The tires make clacking sounds as he passed over the cracks of the sidewalk.
Clack, clack, clack, “arghhh, shiver me timbers it be a monster.” Aidan paused, his bike had never made that sound before. His sister Danika had obviously heard it as well because she looked down at him. He felt that he should explain, there was only one group that he knew of that made a sound like that.
“Pirates,” he said and got off his bike to look under it. Danika just shrugged, Aidan had got the reputation of being incredibly imaginative, if he thought there were pirates under his bike it wasn’t the weirdest thing he believed.
Aidan went so far as to lay down on the sidewalk the better to see what was on it. That got Danika’s attention.
“No don’t lay down here, come on, get up,” she said crouching down and trying to lift him up. She paused.
“Aidan, are those one inch pirates?” asked Danika very quietly. Aidan had caught sight of them too and he nodded.
“Have we both gone insane?” Aidan didn’t know what insane meant but he usually found it best to agree with people, he nodded. Danika seemed to find comfort in that because she turned her attention to the pirates.
“Who are you,” she asked them, she couldn’t keep thinking of them as the pirates.
“We are the crew of the Vengeance Miss,” said the man who seemed most likely the captain. He was dressed as a gentleman, while the others looked rougher.
“You should talk to my sister, she’s the one with the pirate fascination,” said Danika grinning. She might have gone insane but she had kept her sense of humor. Her sister had been denying being obsessed with anything for years and Danika had subsequently accused her of being obsessed with everything including not being obsessive.
“People are fascinated by us? But we’re bloodthirsty brutes.” Danika doubted very much that there could be such a thing as a bloodthirsty pirate that was only one inch tall. However she decided not say that, she wasn’t going to go around insulting figments of her imagination, not when she had a perfectly good sister.
“Bloodthirsty usually just gets people interested,” she said dryly. “So why are you so small?”
“Ah, you noticed that, Miss.”
“It’s a bit hard not to.”
“Well there was a bit of an accident and now look at us.”
“Might this accident involved time travel?”
“More along the lines of a multidimensional if you take my meaning Miss.”
“I didn’t know that you had such words in your time or dimension or what ever. This is starting to sound like one of Kayla’s stories.”
“Is she brave, bold, and adventurous?” asked the pirate captain. Danika thought about it for a minuet.
“No.”
“Than we can’t use her, come, we must be off.”
“Where,” asked Danika suddenly suspicious.
“Well you’re going to help us of course Miss.”
“Oh are we, I’m sorry but we have things to do, for one thing I doubt Lisa would be happy if I took Aidan off to some strange adventure.”
“Oh nothing will happen to the little one,” said the captain. Danika thought that this was a bit strong coming from someone who was one inch high.
“What kind of thing do you want help with?”
“Well, see, there’s this box that produces a thousand cockroaches every day and the king decided that we were the people that he could afford to lose to a dangerous adventure. He didn’t say that of course but we aren’t stupid. Who cares about one more or less pirate crew?”
“Then why did you agree to go?”
“Well if you must know we were captured, it was either this or hanging, which do you think we chose?”
“Okay I can understand that but hold on, if the king tapped you than it must be dangerous and if it’s dangerous than I’m not going and neither is Aidan.
“But we’ve passed the dangerous part.”
“Than why do you need us?”
“Because we need height.”
“Didn’t you shrink when you can here, why did you come for height when you would have had it if you hadn’t come.”
“Well there was a miscalculation and we shrank and ended up in the wrong place to boot. We’ll go to the place that we intended to go and than we’ll go back to the place the chest is.”
“Why do you need height to deal with a chest and what do you want from this other place?”
“Well if you must know, roach spray.”
“Oh, Lisa has some of that,” said Danika her suspicions somewhat suppressed by a quest for such a mundane item. She was about to run into the house to go get it when she paused. She had been about to leave Aidan outside with no one to watch him, unless you counted a group of miniature pirates, which she didn’t.
“Come on Aidan, let’s go inside for a minuet.”
“I don’t want to, I want to play with the pirates.” Danika sighed and looked at the pirates, they shrugged.
“Don’t mind him, we’ll see he doesn’t get into any trouble ‘til you get back.” Danika hurriedly picked up her brother and carried him, yelling and crying inside. She returned a few minuets latter with the roach spray and a happy toddler running in front of her.
“Sorry it took me so long, I had to avoid the rest of the family or they would have asked questions. We’re a bit cramped right now, it’s a pretty small house and there’s five of us.”
“If you think that’s cramped than you should try living on a ship at sea for months on end,” said the captain.
All of the pirates boarded their ship and Danika and Aidan held it upright, cupped in their hands. There was a slight thumping sound and they found themselves standing on a beach, up to their ankles in live roaches. In the center of the small island stood a chest, it was open and roaches were poring out.
This is when Danika and Aidan started to freak out terribly. Aidan tried jumping to get off of the sickening ground and made crunching sounds every time he landed.

Kayla had stopped telling the story there.
“I can’t believe I made that up, go on, come back tomorrow and I’ll tell you a good story, one without cockroaches, I’m not even going to finish that one.” The disgust was clearly one sided because Aidan had looked disappointed. Despite all his begging though Kayla would not continue that story.