Year Nine English. This isn't really a short story, more a fictional biography. This retells, and adds greatly, to the backstory of Ebenezer Scrooge, if he were an older man of the Twentieth Century, not the Nineteenth. There's some sketches too.
Wednesday 8th December 2010.
Ebenezer Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge was born on December 25th, 1944. He came
from a German background, though living in England, and become much hated by
his fellow people. He faced many hardships post-war whilst growing up in
school, frequently bullied, and at the age of 14 he left, and joined his father
for a course in business studies. Following this course, he became out of work,
and spent the following years living off his Beatles-obsessed girlfriend, but,
in 1971, she left him, after discovering that he had pawned in her original '1
of -' copy of The White Album, so he could set up a company with his best
friend, Jacob Marley. After multiple unrecorded tax evasions, he had earnt
enough money to set up the business, in 1975. Several decades later, his tax
scam was discovered, and his both work and sexual partner, Jacob Marley, comitted
suicide. Let out to attend the funeral, he scammed both his deceased partner
and the police, thus allowing him to continue as a free man. Through the
business he earned a fortune, and yet his record-breaking amount was never
recorded in records, and so to keep the unearned title, he lived as a poor man,
and spent little. He soon assisted the help of a Robert Crachitt, a family man,
to work in his bank. However, Robert regretted this, and became a member of the
poor, living with his family inside the cheapest flat available. With his
wealth, Scrooge's hatred has returned, with even his family and friends bad
mouthing him.
© 2010 Peter Webb
