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Mac Eagan is NOT un app roachable
Jun
Literati! Conspicuous by his absinthe has been Mac Eagan. We expectorated that he was with holding his entry into our Wingnuts contest until the competition had exhausted itself, and he could introduce something clean and refreshing (see video below).
Take heart–you still have the opportunity to up him one, as the contest remains open until June 10th, at which point I will select finalists for a write-off. Here again are the made-to-be-followed/broken rules: http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/2013/05/04/wing-nuts-our-new-contest/
In the mean time, here is what Mac calls
New Buginnings–OOPS–BEGINNINGS!
by Mac Eagan
Don sat across from Mac, set a laptop on the table and pulled out a matchbox.
“What’ll you have, boys?” asked the server.
“A bottle of beer,” answered Don. “And the cap.”
“Diet Coke.”
Don seemed surprised.
“Designated driver,” Mac said.
The server shrugged and left.
“You say ‘meet me at the bar’ – then don’t drink?”
“I don’t drown memories, Don, just distract myself from them. Plus, drivers drink free. Looks like it’s the three of us?”
Don opened the matchbox. A roach crawled out, then raced to the laptop and vaulted himself onto the keyboard, bouncing all over it.
hey mac hows things
“Decent. Yourself?”
great
“Waitress,” Don warned. Archy slipped under the laptop.
Don poured a little beer into the bottlecap as the server retreated. Archy returned to dancing across the keyboard.
we forgetting or remembering
Don did not see the server return. He did see a flash of aluminum as she raised her tray above her head.
“Defense!” yelled Don. Archy jumped for the mouse pad as Don slammed the laptop closed. The tray bounced off Don’s knuckles as the server disappeared.
The pair were old hats at Defense. Archy flattened himself into mousepad and Don closed the cover. Don re-opened the laptop with a smile.
Don’s smile dropped and fearful realization filled his eyes. Mac looked down, hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
“What now, Don?”
“I … guess I’ll just have to wing it. I … don’t know.”
Ew!!!! And AWESOME! So much fun to read! Poor Archy. Guess his winging days are over.
“Ew” and “awesome”
I could not have asked for a better opinion. Thanks.
Beerly, beerly I say unto you Mac, death by Apple is juicy, but not PC. It doth proveth, however, that three diminsions are better than two. Or better put into song as paraphrased from the musical Archy in Paris…sing along if you wish… When server comes and trays cockroach away, o, la, la, la, it’s thrills and shriekras. Cherchez la ailes toujours. Ooh-la-la! He’s bug juice drinka.
Well, that about caps off my thoughts.
And what a nightcap of thoughts you have shared – thank you.
And here is pure fun. Fun, fun,fun, from the delightful mind of Mac Egan: Subject matter, characters, and intent. I assume the video was provided by you. After I watched it (specially got off on the aqua olympic dance) I uplugged the laptop and visited the bathroom myself (several reasons involved here) and reread the story while doing a little johnny dance of my own. Mac. this is hysterical. Perhaps act 2 before the 10th?
Stang that’s just wrong in about five different ways!!!!!
Only five?
Yeah, Clark’s imagination is showing
‘Scuse me while I whip out my imagination
Thank you very much, Mike. No, I did not provide the video; that was entirely courtesy of the now-traveler-in-chief, although I am not surprised he chose that source as a companion for my story.
Fun was what I was looking for, glad you thought I found it.
Funny stuff, Mac. This is great!
Thank you, Gary. I am finding humo(u)r is more fun to write.
What fun this is to read. Mac you have a very funny side to your writing. I’m still chuckling from the vision of the dead roach. So question…who was Archy writing to or was he passing on – muhahaha – his words of wisdom? Whatever he was doing – this one is off the wall and that’s where roaches hang out….
Haha. Always great to read your work.
Thanks, Jon.
Mac,
Humor must be fun for you, because you are doing it so well. As I got near the end, I thought I knew what was going to happen and normally I would be all for squishing him.( I hate those little monsters) but when you name him Archie and give him dialogue, I hated to see the little guy go. Good work.
Blessings, pd
Hiya, Peggy!
Actually, I did not name him Archy. The original author, Don Marquis, my wingman in this story, did. Well, I am sure according to Don that Archy’s parents gave him that name, or perhaps he retained it from his previous tour as a writer.
If you are not familiar with Don, Archy and the cat, Mehitabel, check this out when you have a chance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
Thank you for the comment, Peggy; glad to see you back on the playground.