Today's writing prompt over at the Mindlovemisery's Menagerie is "Wild Wild Life." It was inevitable. The entire town knew it was just a matter of time before the wild-ass Limbourg brothers and the duBerry twins, Dingle & Razz, would hook-up. And they were afraid. The Limbourgs and duBerrys were neighbors and the best of friends--kind of like the [...]
We join Sebastian and François in their shared bedroom/laboratory as they peruse one of Paracelsus' homunculus recipes. "So?" Sebastian persisted. "Whaddaya think? Do you wanna do it or not?" François sighed, shaking his head. "I dunno, dude. It's pretty creepy..." "Of course it's creepy. We're not makin' a birthday cake!" "I know, but...like, I don't even [...]
Birds were chirping, bees were buzzing, and flowers blooming. In other words, it was a typical summer afternoon in the Abnormal, MI home of the Wild-Ass Limbourg brothers. One would expect that such a gorgeous day would have goosed the boys' imaginations beyond the speed limit, but they were having none of it. Instead, Sebo and [...]
"Dude?" François ventured. "We gotta find Pendragon, but fast! Do you have any idea what could happ..." "No shit, Frankie?" Sebastian feigned amazement. "I know exactly what a circus would do to someone like Pendragon. Look how they treat their animals! Why would the treat Pendragon any different?" "Okay, okay. You don't have to rip my [...]
"Oh, Dude..." Sebastian sighed. "What are we gonna do?" "Poor little guy." François mumbled, clenching Pendragon's broken chain. "I don't even know where to start looking!" "Maybe we should call the cops & report him as a missing person." Sebastian picked up a tattered paper airplane and began refolding it into the shape of da Vinci's Glider. [...]
"Who was that?" François sputtered through a mouthful of sardine sandwich. "Dude?" Sebastian announced as he hung up the phone. "We got big problems." "How so?" He took slurped another bite of the sloppy sandwich. "Frankie, how can you eat that?" Sebastian grumbled. "It's stinkin' up the whole house!" "Open mouth, shove in, chew and swallow." François shrugged. [...]
"Dude!" Sebastian elbowed his brother. "Can you believe we're on our way to Ireland?" "I can't get my seatbelt fastened!" François fumbled with the clasps. "Here, hold Pendragon." Sebastian gently hoisted the mini-man from François' lap. "There's the little-bitty monkey-guy...goo-goo!" "Don't call him that! It hurts his feelings." "I'm just joking, Dude. Monkey...homunculus...get it?" "Duh?" François rolled [...]
