The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[Handley_Page]

One cuppa coming up.

It's almost dry enough to drag out the lawn mower for the first time this year. The weeds are growing, well, like weeds and the leaves need to be mulched.

At current rates of progress, I may be OK to mow my lawn sometime next spring. . .

The coffee's fine, thanks

 

[ChloeTzang]

At current rates of progress, I may be OK to mow my lawn sometime next spring. . .

The coffee's fine, thanks

Light snow again today. Time to shelter in place with a nice warm coffee.

Already added three thousand words to my story today. The chupacabras are done for, the Feds have made their appearance, Tex's Coffee shop is till in one piece and breakfast smells soooo good. Now it's time to write some more while the ribs are slow cooking ....

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[Handley_Page]

Light snow again today. Time to shelter in place with a nice warm coffee.

Already added three thousand words to my story today. The chupacabras are done for, the Feds have made their appearance, Tex's Coffee shop is till in one piece and breakfast smells soooo good. Now it's time to write some more while the ribs are slow cooking ....

what the 'Eck is a abracadabra thingy ?
Can it be killed in the 'normal' way, when required ?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

what the 'Eck is a abracadabra thingy ?

North-and-Central American cryptocritter, AKA 'goat-sucker'.

 

[ChloeTzang]

what the 'Eck is a abracadabra thingy ?
Can it be killed in the 'normal' way, when required ?

They can indeed be killed in the normal way... lead poisoning, high velocity, sliced and diced with swords or axes, crushed with hammers... etc etc. However, they hunt in packs and usually attack the weak and defenceless... we get to meet a few of them ....

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Chupacabras? You don’t know what they are? You’re so lucky. Evil reptilian blood suckers the size of a small bear, leathery green-gray kinda scaly skin, spines running from the neck to the base of their tail, they’re about three to four feet tall, stand and hop like a kangaroo and the evil fuckers hunt in packs. I’d read up on them on Monsternet (it’s on the Dark Web, so don’t bother looking, you won’t find it, not the real Monsternet anyways) after Tex’d invited us down. Just on the off chance. Know your monsters and everything and I’d heard of them but I hadn’t known the details. Didn’t like what I read either.

That puncture tube sticking outa their mouths; that had me shuddering. Punch through your skull like an awl through a layer of plasterboard, liquefy your internal organs and that includes your brain if you didn’t know and suck out the blood like a vacuum cleaner. Takes a heavy round to drop an adult. Run into a pack on your own, you’re in big trouble but with a team this size and with the firepower we could put out, no y problema.

As they say down south, close to the border.

Chupacabra - as always, wikipedia is your friend.

 

[NotWise]

North-and-Central American cryptocritter, AKA 'goat-sucker'.

There's an article here about the origin of the chupacabra. I've seen other sources for the same story.

 

[TxRad]

There's an article here about the origin of the chupacabra. I've seen other sources for the same story.

Someone did a documentary on them a number of years back but it was so screwed up with poor camera use that it was more funny than anything. The only thing I saw was some fuzzy pictures of coyotes.

 

[NotWise]

I've been working on a simple story for something like six weeks, and in that time it's crept up to a grand 4,700 words. I managed yesterday to get past the section of the story that's plagued me. I've known for a long time how the story will end, but the details of how it gets there have been confusing.

The end of the story is unfolding now that I'm past that bottleneck. I can see, not just how it ends, but different routes it could take to get there.

I'm probably not going to pick the route of least resistance.

 

[Handley_Page]

They can indeed be killed in the normal way... lead poisoning, high velocity, sliced and diced with swords or axes, crushed with hammers... etc etc. However, they hunt in packs and usually attack the weak and defenceless... we get to meet a few of them ....

As they say down south, close to the border. [/I]

Good job we write fiction, then, eh ?
OK, I've ordered my Holland & Holland .375 [??] magnum express.
(https://www.hollandandholland.com/gun-room/bolt-action-magazine-rifle/)

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Mornin', good people. Sun won't be up for a while, so I figured I'd dig out Mom's Chelsea Bun recipe. Enjoy.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Good job we write fiction, then, eh ?
OK, I've ordered my Holland & Holland .375 [??] magnum express.
(https://www.hollandandholland.com/gun-room/bolt-action-magazine-rifle/)

It is now in use.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Good job we write fiction, then, eh ?
OK, I've ordered my Holland & Holland .375 [??] magnum express.

Fiction must pay well in the UK, sir. Look at those prices!

 

[TxRad]

Morning all, fresh coffee is now available.

TP, I love a good set of hot buns in the morning.

HP, those things are the size of a big dog, not the size of an elephant. One shot and all you have left is ears and tail.

NW, the path of least resistance is never the most fun. But then again, this is a porn site but don't tell anyone.

 

[ChloeTzang]

HP, those things are the size of a big dog, not the size of an elephant. One shot and all you have left is ears and tail.

One shot with an 8 gauge and that'd be all for sure. And there's a couple of you in this hunting party with 8 gauges.

 

[TxRad]

One shot with an 8 gauge and that'd be all for sure. And there's a couple of you in this hunting party with 8 gauges.

An 8 gauge is not a shotgun. It is small artillery. Not something you want to shot more than once or twice a day.

Too many guns and not enough coffee.

 

[NotWise]

It's a beautiful, crisp morning with balloons up at dawn. Unfortunately, I had to drive into that brilliant dawn to get to work.

On the way I passed a site where homeless people often camp because breakfast is around the corner. Instead of homeless campers there was a collection of emergency trucks, and I worried. Then I saw the production company trucks around the corner and realized that I just drove through a TV crew setting up to film.

I had *just* driven past the railroad shops seconds earlier where there was a location sign for another production, abbreviated "YTS." Don't know what that one is. I have figured out that "TNS" is "The Night Shift," and they're in active production now. Someone else has been shutting down blocks down town to film at night.

Judging from the size of the sites I'd guess it's all television productions. Movie productions are usually on a grander scale.

 

[Hypoxia]

A TV-film production took over Bisbee AZ on the Sonora border when we were there, a bad Stephen King movie, DESOLATION, for which Bisbee's boroughs provided ideal sets. Take after take after take, like Brian Dennehy driving that tarped truck down that Old Bisbee alley a dozen times before the one 3 AM shot of a tiger jumping through a shop window. Crowds of locals stood shivering on the hillsides to see that. We watched from our front porch but missed the tiger. Too bad.

No chupacabras there but the javelinas were bothersome enough. At least there were no longer scores of wild burros wandering the streets, like in the old days, or in Oatman AZ.

Coffee was too much effort but I only crawled out 25 minutes ago, had my pills and peanut butter, and the brief granola-bar-and-Greek-yogurt breakfast, washed down with an instant Hong Kong milk tea. Not nearly as nasty as instante coffee powder. I'm sure glad we found that great Asian grocery, one of a chain with the unlikely name 99 Ranch Market.

Now its time to haul trash out to the dirt road for pickup. I don't sniff a bear so it's probably safe. That'll work me up for coffee, another quadruple espresso, enough to face the rest of the day. EDIT: Trash is out. No bear. Whew. And I changed my mind about the caffeine. I'll finish off the Oliang Thai coffee, strange stuff that requires filtering out corn fragments. Wheee.

 

[TxRad]

Coffee mixing day. One bag of Moca flavored coffee to a half bag of French vanilla flavored coffee. The Moca is too bitter alone. The vanilla is too sweet. The half bag offsets the bitter just right. Walmart brand for one and Dunken for the other. Make sure both are very fine grind. two table spoons to ten cups of water. Cheap also.

Now you know my secret for coffee that tastes great hot or cold.

 

[Handley_Page]

Fiction must pay well in the UK, sir. Look at those prices!

How true; I wish I could afford one. I can reload the cases [used to do that with my S&W model 10]. I'd love an Enfield 303 re-bored to .375 or maybe .416, but I'll settle for what I can get. . . .

Meanwhile, I fancy I can hear my next coffee calling. . .

 

[Hypoxia]

The cheap taropatch, to be mutated into a tenor Mand'uke, should arrive in a couple days, with the strings (from UK) a couple days later. I drool with anticipation. Meanwhile we're deluged; flood warnings are out from Yosemite northward. More heavy snow in a couple days, hopefully not interfering with music deliveries. We're stocked up on chowder, coffee, and wine. And pizzas. We can tough it out.

 

[Captainnumnuts]

Today it was typical coffee and sugar. I read Sunday's paper. Yesterday it was tea, honey, and a touch of milk. I flipped through an outdated homes and gardens magazine. On those rare occasions when I make coffee so thick you can sit a spoon in the middle upright - it's then I think of nothing but going out the door into the morning light.

 

[NotWise]

Today it was typical coffee and sugar. I read Sunday's paper. Yesterday it was tea, honey, and a touch of milk. I flipped through an outdated homes and gardens magazine. On those rare occasions when I make coffee so thick you can sit a spoon in the middle upright - it's then I think of nothing but going out the door into the morning light.

Welcome aboard the SS Coffee Shop and Reading Room, Captain.

After taking six weeks to put down 4,700 words I slammed down more than 2K today on the same story. I got to the end, but there's still work to do here and there.

Just the same, when I got to the end it left me shaking. I'm still a little shaky. The pace of the story gradually accelerates over the last 2k words until bones break. Fortunately, (for the good guys) they're the antagonist's bones.

I just hope I can get that breathless rush over to the readers, along with the aftermath.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Had a nasty little migraine today but managed to finish a flash fiction. Sadly, overshot my word count by nearly double so will be cutting it down, down, down . . .

 

[NotWise]

Had a nasty little migraine today but managed to finish a flash fiction. Sadly, overshot my word count by nearly double so will be cutting it down, down, down . . .

So it was flaaaaash fiction, eh?

 

[Captainnumnuts]

Welcome aboard the SS Coffee Shop and Reading Room, Captain.

After taking six weeks to put down 4,700 words I slammed down more than 2K today on the same story. I got to the end, but there's still work to do here and there.

Just the same, when I got to the end it left me shaking. I'm still a little shaky. The pace of the story gradually accelerates over the last 2k words until bones break. Fortunately, (for the good guys) they're the antagonist's bones.

I just hope I can get that breathless rush over to the readers, along with the aftermath.

Thank you. Excited about your new story? Seems like you put a lot of time and effort into it. Fast pace? I'd like to peek at it when you're done.

I promise not to tell.