by Arabella on Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:30 am
Beverly paused...and rethought the problem. The anaestheticist seemed to smile as he readjusted the controls....
Magically, they were transported to France: not the best of countries nor the worst of countries. Upon arrival at Charles Le Gaulle airport, the party saw a bandaged woman staggering from the passenger chute. Could that be Cynthia, Beverly wondered. Or possibly, the rich and famous demimondaine Paris Hilton? Ah, she thought, but there is no small, rodentlike dog with a pink Hermès leather collar nor is there a pink aura nor any pink accessories from Lacroix....so possibly that might even have been Reginald he of steadfaste friende of me lovere Chaucer or Osama bin Laden recovering from a bad nose job... Beverly passed out, briefly, snuggled close to Chaucer's copy of the Ars Amatoria, which he kept closeby, away from his wallet, but neareth his shires endes. She throbbed listening to the throb of his heartbeat and endes, then she noticed a....
Before they actually had their tickets validated, the party was on the bus and headed for a lovely vacation château, the castle D'If. Ah, the lush verdancy of the South of France. The hills, nudely brown, laid suppine like a nouveau riche middle class tourist, laiden with greasy bain du soleil and redolent of Coppertone SPF 25. The scent of UV protection mingled with lavender and thyme odors, piqued with a topnote of over-ripe beaujolais. The soul of France in the summertime is charged and vexed with many opportunities, so like a young demoiselle, who upon..... Chaucer seemed to be studying his iPhone, looking at something titled "Germa..." as he whisked his mullet locks away in a fit of feverish concentration. But Beverly was concerned about the postcard from Albuquerque she found creased in her underpants....
Beverly started toward the loo at the back of the bus, attempting to hide the wedgie in her lacy black Italian teddy from La Perla. She loosened the top of her corset to divert onlookers by exposing one rosy nipple, scented with her warm, milky and Chanel-laden thoughts, and a let fall a tendril of golden blonde hair, which she stroked, provocatively.
She halted suddenly as one garter snapped--alarmed at the same time by the grey gaseous snaking shape of CO2 gas. Surely there was not going to be a KISS heavy metal performance right now? That was scheduled for lunch....! she thought. What of
Stephen King paused, thinking Maeve Binchy or Danielle Steele had taken over his keyboard....then a sound started humming in his ears. "Oh, no" he shuddered. "Not those coal-mining Welsh sods. ARRRGH"
It was the vuvuzelas. RED, ORANGE, GREEN, BLUE, plastic and inhuman. They hummed, mindlessy and maliciously as if driven by a will of their own.....increasing their volume and earsplitting drone with every idea the noted author had for increased sales and pagination counts....