The Writer’s Room: Summer Holidays!

Mike sat on the porch, sun beaming down bright, as he prepared for the first Writer’s Room teleconference!  Normally, the guys (except Holen) all met up in a big room to hash out story ideas and pick on Mike.  This time, everybody was meeting from their summer vacation spots.  Mike’s was at the cottage, beneath the trees, with birds and chipmunks alike visiting his quiet space.  He logged in and waited for the others to arrive.

The first to arrive was the aforementioned Holen Magroin.  As usual, his screen was fuzzy, revealing no details.

“Holen!” greeted Mike.  “You’re first.  What’s up man?”

Holen muttered something about a hangover, not quite distinguishable.  Mike could make out a figure fussing with his camera gear, but the image got no clearer.

“Not much is up, how’s life in Canada?  I’m still trying to get Harrison to get these new images for Noirison chapter two.  I have a very specific picture in my mind.  He’s close, but not quite there yet.”

Mike was afraid to ask his next question.  “How many revisions has he done so far?”

“Just seven,” answered Holen.  Mike smacked his head.  Holen was an artist, perhaps more than the others in the group.  It had to be just right.  It was his vision!

As if summoned by an unholy ritual, Harrison was next to arrive in the teleconference.  He was calling in from his car.

“Hello,” he said, his calm Australian demeanor revealing nothing of the seven revisions he finished for Holen.

With a flash, John T. Snow appeared on the screen, on holiday from sunny California!

“Hellooooo!” screamed the Snowman, with white sunscreen on his nose and a drink in hand.  “Welcome to California!”

“Fuck California!” Mike screamed back.  “I mean, welcome John!”

The last two participants emerged:  Aaron from a beach in Port Elgin, and 80’s Metal Man seemingly from a rock club somewhere in the UK!

“Welcome everyone!” Mike announced.  “I have a very important statement to make regarding the future of Tee Bone Man.  Are you ready?”

80s Metal Man plugged his ears as a band was soundchecking, but gave the thumbs up.  Aaron saluted from the beach with a “Wahoo!”  John sipped his drink, Harrison nodded stoically, and nobody knew how Holen responded since he was invisible.

Mike took a deep breath.  “You ready guys?  OK.  Here’s the news.  You all get the rest of the summer off!  All of you except Harrison, that is!”

Harrison was unsurprised and unmoved.

“Summer off?  Wahoo!!” said Aaron.  “Wait…why?”

“Well, we’re so far ahead on stories that we have enough to go for the next couple months!  Harrison just needs the art!  We have 80s Metal Man with his new story about the mole in Rock and Roll Heaven, that will be going up soon.  We have a second chapter of Holen’s Noirison series, written and waiting for art.  Personally, I have written the next three chapters of the Multiverse Saga, and Harrison has been working on the adventures of Moustachio and Shinzon separately from that.  We’re all set!  Enjoy the summer, boys!”

Everybody celebrated in their little teleconference windows!  Everyone but the calm and collected Harrison, and the invisible Holen, who may have been battling with a Kraken.  It was simply impossible to know!

“Are you OK, Harrison?” asked Aaron while building a sand castle.  “You aren’t smiling.”

“Yes I am,” responded Harrison.  “I’m overjoyed to be still working on Lego art this summer.  Can you not tell?”

“No!” responded everyone in unison.

“Enjoy the summer guys!” said Mike as he signed off.

He then leaned back in his chair on the porch.  This summer had not gone according to plan.  It had gone better!  He had shed the kryptonite he had been carrying around for the last year, and emerged a new man.  He smiled.  He looked at the schedule of stories ahead.  He nodded in approval.  Big stories.  Big changes.  Big drama.

Man, the readers will be freaked out when they see who dies!

 

The end.

 

THE ADVENTURES OF TEE BONE MAN:  PHASE ONE – THE SQUIRREL SAGA 

THE ADVENTURES OF TEE BONE MAN:  PHASE TWO – THE MULTIVERSE SAGA

  • Chapter Eighteen:  Shinzon – Origins (By LeBrain)
  • Chapter Nineteen:  Tee Bone Man and Superdekes vs. the Lego (By LeBrain) coming soon
  • Chapter Twenty:  The Death of… (By LeBrain) September
  • Chapter Twenty-One:  The Fate of… (By LeBrain) October

 

  • Noirison:  Chapter One (by Holen)
  • The Mole in Rock and Roll Heaven (by 80sMetalMan) TBA
  • Shinzon – Dread and the Fugitive Mind (By Harrison Kopp) TBA

 

THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF EDIE VAN HEELIN’

THE WRITER’S ROOM

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