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Prince Chastain summoned us to his council

  • Prince Chastain summoned us to his council room, under a card table draped with blankets. Electric candles flickered in the corners as we crowded in. A larger venue

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  • Was under construction. That was good reason for the Elizabethan banquet, featuring roast lion and curried goat. Prince Buster sang, "Enjoy Yourself" whilst

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  • doing an Irish jog on the banquuet's table. The queen pursed her lips. This behavior wasn't suited for this occasion. However, The Duke of Whales joined in the tomfoolery.

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  • Once the Duke began to dance, everyone else started to join in the merriment. Lord Pancake brought cheers with his graceful twerking, and Lady MansirBob

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  • tried to imitate him, only to find she lacked Lord Pancake's grace, instead resorting to a maneuvering of arms and hands somewhat akin to the Macarena. This caused the throng to

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  • back away from her, gasping in awe. The crowd formed a circle around her, and with arms flailing wildly, she rose into the sky, leaving Lord Pancake fuming in the shadows below.

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  • The crowd flung her a little bit too hard, and she went sailing over the sun. As George Orwell once said, "A wop bobaloobop, a wop bamboo." She flapped her arms to try and ease her

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  • fall into Animal Farm: The MeToo Generation, to no avail. Having become ionized by her passing over the sun so closely, she was powerless until she was pixilated sufficiently. Gene

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  • therapy would have help with that crash. But a junior officer of the Back 40 brigade had rutted himself into command of that brigade & the Sty Brigade. His name was Napoleon Oink.

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  • Oink styled himself after Napoleon in Orwell’s Animal Farm, with one exception: He was no leader. Oink soon found himself at the wrong end of a cleaver and became a slab of bacon.

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1 Comments

  1. dookierouser Feb 26 2022 @ 12:28

    Politics and sausage making are kith and kin.

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