by T L Barrett
“It was awesome!” Glen said and started to list the wonders of the day.
Brenda took Barry’s hand and they walked a bit away. Brenda put her arms around Barry’s neck.
“My handsome knight in shining leather!” Brenda said.
“Thanks for saving my life back there,” Barry said.
“I think I owed you one, if you can recall,” Brenda said.
“I just can’t get over what happened to Stephanie. She was such a sweet girl. You would have really liked her,” Barry said.
“Well, I approve of her taste in men,” she said.
Just then, a zombie, having got trapped inside a vendor’s tent for the past few hours stumbled out and marched toward Brenda’s back.
“Watch—” Barry started.
Brenda turned, drove her nails into the oncoming zombie’s guts. The zombie lurched to a stop and looked down in surprise. Brenda lifted the zombie off the ground and swung him like a baseball bat. She knocked his head off against a light post. She tossed the body to the ground and smacked her hands off against each other.
“You are the sexiest woman alive,” Barry said.
“You ain’t seen nothing yet,” Brenda growled and leapt. Barry caught her wrists but did not keep her from coming forward for a savage kiss.
“Oh, get a room, you two!” Glen shouted. “Oh, and Ollie, I was thinking, Ollie Prince and the Hairy Monsters sounds a little, well, twentieth century, if you know what I mean. You might as well name us the Hairy Tops or something,” Glen said.
“Okay, what would you suggest, Glen?” Ollie asked.
“How about: Sasquatch Sexplosion!” Glen said, taking his hands off the backs of the ladies that had their arms wrapped about him in order to spread them theatrically in the sky. Clea and Rhonda giggled.
“I think somebody needs to get a room, themselves,” Ollie said.
“Well, I don’t know, Ollie,” Barry said coming back to them, arm in arm with Brenda, “at least it has alliteration.”
“Okay, fine, how about: Sasquatch Babymaker?” Glen asked.
“I love it!” Clea snorted.
“Me, too!” Rhonda yelled.
“Relax, girls, there’s enough of me to go around,” Glen said.
“You aren’t serious, obviously,” Ollie said. “We’re not all Sasquatch, are we, Glen?”
“Nobody’s going to hold that against you, little buddy,” Glen said. “How about Lovepumper?”
“No, Oh, my God! You are sadly obsessed with your noodle!” Ollie said.
“You know, I thought you were a librarian when I first met, you,” Barry told Brenda in her ear.
“What?” she asked and pulled away, frowning.
“I really like librarians!” Barry gave her a toothy grin.
“Okay, Love Noodle,” Glen said.
“Look, Glen, I still have a large demographic of pre-teens that love my old stuff. I am going to completely alienate my middle-American fan base,” Ollie said.
Glen stooped close to Ollie.
“Ollie, sometimes it’s a good thing to expand your horizons, you know, try to attract someone new. I mean, look at Barry. He did. Although, if you’re asking me, there are limits to exactly how far someone should go, right? I mean, please!”
Barry didn’t notice Glen’s little gibe. He wouldn’t care if he had. At the moment, the loveliest werewolf in the world was pressed up against him, whispering the Dewey decimal system in his ear.
About the Author:
T. L. Barrett is a weird guy who lives with his wife and children in the Green Mountains of Vermont where he writes weird fiction, teaches weird children, and acts even weirder during the full moon. His stories have been published in many anthologies and magazines, many of which appear in The Night Library. Hairy Bromance is his third published novel.
You can learn more about T. L.
Barrett and his works at: http://tlbarrett.blogspot.com.
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Table of Contents
Hairy Bromance
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
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