Monday, November 3, 2014

"Butch Gardens, Episode 63" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (The drug lords’ lair.  It’s gray, like a dusty shooting gallery but with nobody 
            popping out.  A faint buzzing.)

            (The younger women---ELINOR RADLEY, FOOFEE, LONNIE, and the 
            PANTHER LADY---approach.)


FOOFEE
The drug lords lair.  Do we walk in?

LONNIE
Where could they be?  Oh, I don’t understand men.

            (The PANTHER LADY yelps and switches something with her tail.)

FOOFEE
What’s the---?

            (The PANTHER LADY yelps again and spins around, looking for what bit her.)

                    FOOFEE (Continued)
What---?

            (FOOFEE touches her side.)

                    FOOFEE (Continued)
Did I bump---?

LONNIE
Something’s poking me!  Like a pencil point---

FOOFEE
It hurts a little---

LONNIE
Not too bad---

            (The PANTHER LADY snarls at an unseen annoyance.)

ELINOR RADLEY
It’s men!  Men!

            (She brushes something from her neck.)

FOOFEE
They’re attacking from another plane!

            (The women thrash mildly.)

LONNIE
How do we fight what we can’t see or hear?

            (Hitting.  Snarling.  Not too much.)

            END OF EPISODE 63.