"Butch Gardens, Episode 62" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE, along with GEORGETTE and GRACE, is lost, 

            a bit confused, in no real rush.)

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE

I have this feeling . . .

GRACE

You have it, too?

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE

About Annie.

GRACE

Oh.

GEORGETTE

Which one is that?

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE

The girlfriend.  The one who didn’t get covered in slime.  The one who wasn’t dead and didn’t come back to life.

GRACE

Oh, her.

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE

Usually Foofee says this kind of thing---

GEORGETTE

I know---

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE

But I wonder if she didn’t make a Faustian bargain:  give her life to save someone---that Annie---no, Lonnie---the one who was dead but isn’t anymore.

GRACE

I’d give my life to save Georgette.

GEORGETTE

I’d give my life to save you.

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE

I’d give my life for a comfy cushion.

            (They keep plodding.)

            END OF EPISODE 62.

"Butch Gardens, Episode 61" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (The drug lords’ lair.  All is stillness and veiledness.  The emptiness is queer.   

            Perhaps a slight buzzing.)

            END OF EPISODE 61.

"Butch Gardens, Episode 60" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (ELINOR RADLEY, FOOFEE, LONNIE, and the PANTHER LADY are 

            stalking drug lords in the Amazon rain forest.)

LONNIE

Hold on.  If we can’t hear men, how do you think we’ll see them?

ELINOR RADLEY

Well---oh, I don’t know . . .

FOOFEE

They must exist on another plane---

            (The PANTHER LADY looks up, crouches, and snarls.)

                     FOOFEE (Continued)

Not that kind of plane, silly Panther Lady.

ELINOR RADLEY

But, if that’s so, how do we destroy them?

            (Stupefaction.  Shrugs all around.)

            END OF EPISODE 60.

"Dissolution, Part VI"

MRS. HO

I was going to ask you to allow Westward---

MOCHA TCHOKHA ROSE

If you could find him---

MRS. HO

I was going to force you---

MOCHA TCHOKHA ROSE

’Glad you can’t---

MRS. HO

But . . .

MOCHA TCHOKHA ROSE

Why are you here?

MRS. HO

            (Pause)

I don’t know.

            (MRS. HO packs up her grandchild and walks somberly out of Panera Bread.   

            MOCHA TCHOKHA ROSE pulls out a laptop and begin to write.)

            (Elsewhere, WESTWARD HO watches, as through a crystal ball.)

            END OF “DISSOLUTION.”