Part 2
The Ferret and Welsh Losser are locked in intimate embrace behind a wild garbage-glutted copse on Trukhaniv Island as their big fish fries blithely on The Ferret’s secret grill, sending up delectable whorls of smoke into the early morning atmosphere.
Suddenly a deranged, beastlike predator swoops over the grill, sweeping the fish from it, and crashes through the trees with a shrill victorious shriek that’s barely human.
HEH, HEEEHH – WHAT WAS THAT!!!
Nyooaa-a-a-aaa… What in tarnations?!
Heh, I think it was Andrew Plumb!
A. Plumb?! – nyo! I hate that, that… Animal Boy – yuckety yuckety yaaa…
Well, heh, heh, it doesn’t matter if you hate him or not. This may be a problem for other reasons. I’m trying to hire him for my new website, Kyiv Unread, which is meant to put Kyiv Unedited out of business. He was moving so fast – I wonder if he saw us. Heh.
Oh, saw us he did, I’m sure! Nyoo-oo-oo…
Yeah, but did he recognize who we were – heh, heh, heh-heh-heh…
Familiar Voice From Behind: Well, HE may not have recognized you, but I certainly did!
Ferret and Losser: Josh Davies!
Davies: Yes, indeed. Something told me I’d find you two lovebirds out here.
Filed by Jack Step, March 22, 2013