The Continuing Adventures of Surprise Flintkote
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 2
Seven said, “You know. Two is keeping Tyche safe in Austin and keeping Alice as safe as she wants to be.”
“So that’s why you seven are Six?”
That took a minute. Not a Real minute ... but a long enough pause that the instructors at the Columbia School of Broadcasting would call it, ‘Dead Air.’ ‘Dead Air,’ is a bad thing. The average American listener has an attention span of not quite 15 seconds. As crazy as it seems, Broadcast Golf is popular because there is enough action going on at 27 Tee drives, fairway shots, approaching shots and putting greens that ‘filler’, the interaction between announcers, is kept to a bare minimum. In a ‘final round of foursomes’ ... someone will fuck up enough to keep the interest of the American Public viewing audience ... and that interest creats ‘impulse buying.’
Impulse buying means jingle in the pockets and America runs on money.
“Yes,” said Seven, “And don’t you be calling me Six ... my life was more than quite boring when I was Mary.”
The pair of women exchanged a knowing glance.
“Mom,” said Seven at the same time as Surprise said, “How you been, baby?”
They hugged like a mother and daughter who have ‘moved on’ in life. They grinned, disengaged and Surprise said, “You be good to your older sister.”
With the chagrin that she always felt when some one said, “What is your birthday?” Seven mumbled, “Yes, mom.”
Tyche was ‘almost five’ when Seven was born. Time Travel can, and often does, make life confusing. Interesting but confusing.
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