Friday, April 3, 2009

The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush Volume LXXXI

One glorious spring day that just so happened to be the day of the countywide slinky fair, Mogey and Smush headed down to the town square with their slinkies in hand. Mogey was excited to slinky and be seen slinkying, but Smush? Smush had a date with slinky destiny.

"Do mine eyes deceive me?" shouted a callous voice as Mogey and Smush entered the slinkgrounds. "That can't be Smush? Not after that performance last year!"

Smush merely stared his verbal assailant in the eye and whispered one word. "Rematch."

A crowd of people gathered as Smush ascended the long staircase that had been erected in the center of town for slinky-offs. His shouting opponent, a nameless, evil man named Pepperjohn, climbed next to him. When they reached the top, Smush gave his slinky, which he called Mr. Rubenstein, a good luck bounce and readied himself to slink. Pepperjohn, full of bravado as always, merely plopped his slinky, The Red Wonder, down upon the top stair.

"Readyyyyyy...annnd...Slink!" called the referee from the bottom of the staircase, and they were off. First Mr. Rubenstein was ahead, then The Red Wonder made a push, and then they were neck and neck. Just when it seemed as if The Red Wonder was going to eek out yet another victory, Mr. Rubenstein surged forward with a superslinky effort to claim the win.

Led by Mogey, the townspeople descended on Smush and Mr. Rubenstein, the heroes of the hour, showering them with rose petals and slinky rejuvenating oil. Pepperjohn, meanwhile, was forced to take his supper in Farmer Johannson's extra-prickly hedgehog pen. And the Red Wonder was melted down and recast into an ornamental toilet flush, the most dishonerable fate any slinky could have.

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