SW10/PRECOG/HCC: So How's the Pizza?

[Scott Eiler]

Oops, I broke an HCC rule.  The Writer is of course a "genre" character 
per the rules of the LNH.  But he didn't share his pizza.

Too bad.  But at least he didn't leave hungry.  8{D>

On 11/8/2014 8:20 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:

> The alien killing machine raised his paddle against the panda
> nature-avatar.  The paddle held Engines of Reality.
>
> Energy burst forth...
>
> ...
>
> On another level of reality, the Writer put his picture of the panda and
> the killing machine away, as the waitress delivered his pizza.  But then
> the phone rang.
>
> "Hello.  Yr whel hz a brkn axl."
>
> "Hello?  I can't hear you."
>
> "Yr wheel haz a brkn xl."
>
> "Excuse me..."  The man holding the phone plugged his ear and walked out
> the restaurant door to the parking lot.  "Let's try that again.  I
> thought I heard you say my wheel has a broken axle."
>
> "Ys it ds."
>
> "Yes, you say?"
>
> "Ys.  Bt we cn rpar it."
>
> "Excuse me, did you say you *repair* the axles of broken bicycle wheels?"
>
> "Thts rite."
>
> "Is that really best if the wheel's that broken?"
>
> "Lt me chk..."
>
> "Arrggh!"
>
> ... Ten minutes later, the Writer returned to his restaurant seat and
> *finally* ate his pizza.
>
> The waitress came by.  "So, how was the pizza?"
>
> "Cold.  But not your fault."
>
> ...
>
> An hour later, the Writer reclaimed his vehicle from the bicycle shop
> and went home.
>
> But there was still unfinished business with a panda, a paddle, and a
> killing machine.
>
> ---
>
> Author's Note:  This is what we call a True Story.  Also a Coming
> Attraction.  Also a High Concept Challenge, as it happens.
>
> Be assured, the bicycle is fine for now.  Though it's amazing it got as
> far as the pizza place if the axle was broken.  I thought it just needed
> a spoke replaced at the convenient nearby bike shop...  Anyway, nothing
> was harmed in the production of this story, except maybe the pizza.
>


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When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.