(from) Frank

Furlong the him&her off wambled to indoor cottage nearby, and habiting noplace, morphobeast trailed unbeknownst, scrambling nether brambles til walled anon without and thru seamly foundation peeking. Inside espied old gray geezer squab sprawled with handfold overbelly, slumberzz peace, and him&her passerby twinkle toed, shushing, when door clapped to old guy sudden rouse, upspringing all agog with finger clutches and wild croaky. Oh, mega muddle then, piteous much ado, with torque noggin, dotard pretty vexious, planer see, and him&her spry to coddle, copious cloy soothy. Zokay, us'ns bayou, nada worry! Longtime to placid over, phiz bobby geezer with orbs whiting and puff throes, maw frothed from specter babble, but savoury young?esh kept a grip on unhinged, face2facing neverendly. Nome marveled at unhurry to godly gushcare, slow unfold of the little known, pate stroking, cooey, nil cum wastrels, lie bury poltroons, ditzy savoir burghers. Backminded nome to shattered unveil of void being at ?rst mourn, sprawl splendor, the retro brighting of vortex whirl. Joy! But nonplussed too, for each upright glummed sagface after, meager zip, droop shoulder, all overcast to utters but nowon knows, being of sole pang the eye mirror. Lusty heman outwandered to sparkle gape, uplooking cum howl moony, and busty her long closeted with void stare. Geezer dozed but somewhen growl ranty, cog rocked with ham flinches, unquiet. What cuz this unfull? own wondered. Brimmed alljoy in 3being, happy backgive, face2face, and mawful night smarmy. Never banished mid dankhole cum nowon. But hearthside nome eyed little zesty, or only circumpanging and agoned as muchlack. Enigmade.

So all next sun&moon nowon the hearth watching, rapt at all new episodes, still stayed clueless of cuz grief, tho mickle learning. Lusty heman oft back&forthing, pant pant, muskypitted from heft chop, faggoty armful for cottage blazing, or longtime toolbangered on cottageside, with her buxom furbelow upshoving gizmos and rect planks. Somewhens paused for tuneful slapping of string boxes, a scrang a scrang, groanly raucousing, and slurpy her voxxed to beauteous warbles. Or edgedark yum fashioned, cottageful of multi drool waftings, mmmm, for plenum maw cram and blood swilling, roundtable. Old geezer porch rockered or otherwhens staggered inchamber for soft ranty, but nil flailing dementia cum yesterlich. At moonrose, nome ogled prodigious lightbubbles, wallblips, also the overhead, ubi outglowing, to daylonger, now or whenever, the unevening. This benighting ?rst upended nowon, whorlbrained at new gloaming, black to white, lifeprint effaced, but avid to achord with belouvered uprights, nome instanter dizzied to daydrifting, indoored outsynch and in no time rhythmed to tickletock, blackend of oversky. Gnomoaning. Hee.

But one specter most whorled nome, multi sun&moons mindscrimming after. Late uneven, belouvered uprights gathered hearthround, sofa draped or ottomanned, to gawk what then seamly, nowon unyet forecogging, wuz tiny lightcube. This wonderbox, later learned, by 3being nomened teevy, made mighty squawknoise, the all new 9 eastern 8 central, abode of quick shades, yawp genies, utter power to cubic whirlround. Nowon at holechink everogling marveled at uprights everogling, how uncountly clocksweeps, all rapt astonied and slackjowled, phizzed to unblink the whitehole. Drool?esh longhair, herpangly ?recrotcher, would bust heave and choak stop, or gushing loud sighsss, throatclutch, eyebright with skin dampy. Or lustish himcomely, heman wetmaking, slushloins, itch itch, how chair perched, poised for leaping, maw agape and eyebulgy, or as wonderbox noised wildly, oft grrroundteethed, neckstrung and slobber?eshy, thigh?sting. Own wondered whatsource this gawk seize, so captivating? Mayhaps in squawkbox upright Maker incubed, Wombard of belouvered 3beings, or utter god? Even old wobbly adam, hoartufty, would oft fierce perk, the eartuned, hopupping at loudly squawks, multi blacksome, whahappen? whahappen? Oh longpast, furor still to mindscrim, nome the nomothered hotfaced was then grip with chesterror. To backthink this rupture, print bondly, how to unmagick ever?

Well, thus habited, whelp of nomother, a second sun&moon to refuge clung. Unspoked foreplot, inhole grounded, with all marveling 3being nearby, soonish own posed, why stray further? Headvoid still of unyet and meager torment pixxed, altercome, this loamy blank in allseeing, to reckless nowon, a utope seamed. Homelich. So misograph and ostraphobe ?eeing, nome vowed herein to nowplace linger. Danksnuggle, unstabbed of muchwant, and fiendworm still afaroff, at last again to slumberzz took, miscreant knew for timebeing, small peace.

Ticka.

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--R.M. Berry

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