Considering a book of short stories - heres a preliminary excerpt: This was it. In his long life Bishop had been shot, nearly blown to bits by Willoughby (several times), fought hordes of ravenous demons, stood up to international mobsters and assassins and stormed the beaches of Normandy in the face of mortars and machine guns. But here he was, literally, at the end of his rope. It was an ignominious end. Bishop wasn’t sure how much longer he could hold his grip. Already, one hand had slipped and sweat beaded on his forehead as the other began to cramp. He slipped two more inches and the bitter frayed end of the rope tickled his wrist. Even through his pain and stolid determination he could hear the cheers and taunts of the surrounding mob. It was all over; his grip failed and he fell, resigned to his fate. Hundreds of enthusiastic Pixies cheered. “About damned time you big baby!” Annalee yelled over the high pitched tiny voices. Bishop’s bobbed to the surface of the cold water, his mustache drooping like a red haired walrus and climbed back onto the seat of the gaudy colorful dunking tank. “Lucky shot,” he said as he dripped. Ordinarily, Bishop avoided such indignity (in public at least), but today was a special event. Today was Queen Diana’s ‘Umptymrmble-th’ birthday, and it would be the height of bad manners not to indulge her whims. It wouldn’t be so bad without the bloody wings. Diana insisted that her birthday be celebrated at the Pixie tree and in order to visit, Bishop, Louise, Annalee, Melanthorpe and Willoughby had all been fitted with temporary Pixie wings. Louise and Anny had cheerfully welcomed the requirement and Louise was getting flying lessons from the Kimberly twins somewhere high in the branches. Willoughby asked if he could keep his. Melanthorpe glowered in sullen silence with a large tankard of some sort of mead. Spread out behind his broad shoulders, in absurd contrast to his black sweater, dark sunglasses and black beret he sported a dainty pair of pink and yellow wings. And after his tenth dip into the icy waters of the dunking tank, Bishop was convinced that Annalee was cheating.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:12:28 +0000
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