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Pastimes : Muffy's Story: A Short Story Game for Would Be Authors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: scion who wrote (420)5/31/2001 9:27:30 PM
From: TEDennis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 766
 
... snagged two of those pesky flies that seemed to forever hang out around Erroll.

"Good job!", said Erroll. "Two at once. I knew those extra hours in the iguana training classes would pay off. Darned pesky flies, anyway."

When the water had drained from the tank enough that Bugs Pond was able to get a breath of air, Bugs sucked in a lung full. With the air came that sweet smell of feminine pulchritude, which immediately brought Bugs' focus back to Muffy.

He grinned at her, then winked and held out his hand. She gleefully reached into the tank, grabbed his hand, and helped him out of the tank. He whispered something in her ear. She giggled like a school girl, then nodded at him. She thought briefly about Rear Admiral's condition, but that thought quickly got lost in her excitement about Bugs' suggestion.

Octopussy was cowering in the corner, not exactly sure what had happened. It was obvious he had never encountered anyone as powerful and cunning as the muscular Bugs Pond.

Erroll had lost interest in the after-glow of the wrestling match between Bugs and Octopussy. His attention had been directed towards the deskktop and the computer that was setting on it. He moved the mouse, then tapped a few keys.

"Password?", asked Erroll, quizzically. "Who put a password on the Doc's computer?"

Iggy flicked out his tounge(sic) in rapid fire succession. The only thing that appeared on the computer screen was a string of asterisks. "Password accepted" displayed for a few seconds, then the main window of the application displayed.

"Hey!", said Erroll to Iggy. "How did you know ... well, never mind. That's not important right now."

As Bugs and Muffy silently left the room arm-in-arm, Erroll pointed and clicked for several minutes.

He finally found what he was looking for.

Grinning so hard his teeth hurt, he exited the application, and ...