ARRGHHHH....I started a short piece for my own challenge and it started growing into a full blown short story....so I am posting only a couple of paragraphs to be fisnished soon....I dont have time to finish it today, but I don't want to not post on my own challenge day, that would be a mess...sorry.
“You are a
spring dick.”
“What the
hell is that,” William asked, emptying a second packet of Sweet-n-Low into his
iced tea.
“A spring
dick my dear old friend, is someone who can find fault, regardless of the fact
that there is a near perfect spring day upon him and he has nothing to do but
spend time with his best friend, soak up the sunshine and revel in the miracle
of being alive.”
“Those day
lilies smell like cat piss to me, I don’t know why you insist on bringing them
indoors. It smells like we live in the
cat ladies house. And when is my best friend going to get here?”
“A spring
dick.”
“Yes, I
heard you the first time.”
The back
yard was resplendent in the springtime. The lilies, freesias, wisteria all blooming
in a rhapsody of life and color. William
and Charles would sit on the porch every day for the next three months from
nine until two, William drinking iced tea and smoking small cherry cigars and
Charles sipping whatever sickening sweet cocktail of the day he could purge
from the depths of his Cooking Light magazine collection. His subscription had long run out, but he had
the tattered remains of every issue form March of 2000 until April if 2010, the
year he liked to refer to as his “untimely
fall from grace.” He had borrowed five hundred dollars cash from the
register at Hero’s Bar and Grill, his place of employment at the time. He was short of cash and needed to buy heels
and get waxed before the drag competition at Apollo’s the weekend before Pride.
He didn’t think the cash would be missed.
He was wrong. He always “intended to put it back out of my next
paycheck,” but there was no next paycheck for Charles.
The cacophony
of fragrances in the back yard put to shame any perfume, of any old woman, on
any elevator , in Savannah Georgia, on any given Sunday. That was saying a lot. The hummingbirds would
flock by the hundreds in the spring to sip from any one of twenty-five hand
decorated bird feeders, Charles was certain that the decoration was what lent
to the large number of birds. He was of course, largely overlooking the fact that there were no other
hummingbird feeders for at least ten blocks, but then how would he know that
was the case.
The grass
was as perfect as any grass could be, neatly trimmed and cut, so resilient that
sometimes the afternoon sun would reflect harshly into the eyes of anyone on
the porch who was not wearing sun glasses. Charles only had the best
sunglasses, polarized and designer brands in every shape, color and style you
could imagine. The grass was no match
for him.
To be continued....
