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

To: Mark Mandel who wrote (621)	11/27/2003 10:01:19 AM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 766

... sure, I can imagine the sewers. And, I can remember reading about the fortune amassed by the enterprising young couple who dredged up the overflowing sewer's contents which they used to manufacture paperweights, which they then sold as souvenirs of "The Great Ottumwa Sewer Flood". Those paperweights became popular collector's items. Surely you've heard of the world famous "Pet Paperweights"? Scratch and sniff. But Ottuma's history isn't important right now. What's important right now is Bugs' situation. Here he is, tumbling ever so slowly towards Earth, and the Ottumwa air strip. By Bugs' calculations, it should take him 3 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes, and 19 seconds to reach his destination. That was just an estimate, of course. In any other situation, he could have used his super-hero training in travel time estimations and been more accurate, but the thin air up here in space was affecting his thinking. His mind wandered as he thought back over his career as a super-hero. He had been involved in so many exciting adventures! Like, the time he narrowly avoided being ground up by the wood chipper. The Hollywood crew used a similar concept in a movie about that one, but instead of highlighting Bugs' prowess as an accomplished super-hero, they chose to let the actor (a Fargo, North Dakota resident) suffer a horrible fate. Sells more movies, I guess. And, the time he survived all night long in the dark basement of a house under attack by crazed lunatics. You couldn't tell whether those people were Living or Dead. What a night that was! Alas, Hollywood got the details wrong on that one, too. Wait ... what's that over there? The morning sun is reflecting off a shiny object into the eyes of Bugs Pond (our hero!) Why, it's that multi-million dollar whizbang military weapon that the Astronaut lost control of in a prior episode! If Bugs could only maneuver himself into position to grab that ... that .... well, whatever that is. Even though the object was about a half mile away, Bugs was able to use his acute super-hero vision to read what was engraved on the handle ... "Product of Tikrit"