Thursday, October 7, 2021

The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: Quarantine Episode 8

"Mogey?" Smush inquired after he'd seen his pal enter the kitchen, make a cup of sugar water, and exit for the third time in 15 minutes. "What are you up to?"

"Oh, ehm, nothing," Mogey replied, lying more obviously than a sarcastic genie whose master is leading a double life. "Just getting some refreshment."

"Alright, out with it: What sort of creature have you adopted this time?"

"I didn't adopt him!" Mogey insisted. "I'm just helping him recuperate. I think he might've crashed into one of our windows. I'm not sure what you call his species, but I named him Gnasher."

"Where is he now?" Smush asked.

"I made him a little nest out in the barn. Want to meet him?" 

Mogey led Smush out to the dairy'n'loungin' barn and hauled open the great oaken door. Smush gasped. Wriggling in the hay was a 15-foot tiger shark.

"He might've crashed into one of our windows???" Smush demanded. "We live 250 miles from the ocean!"

"Well you see, Smush," Mogey replied authoritatively, "at certain times of day, the reflection of the glass makes it look like there's a whole other world beyond the window. Poor little guys like this get confused." He gave Gnasher an affectionate scratch just behind his gills.

"Gnash," the shark added.


 

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