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With an all-day menu consisting of chips, hot dogs and pre-wrapped sandwiches from the gas station on Wilger Lane, it had always been clear to the more polished townspeople that what happened at the Stumbling Monkey had very little to do with food. After three decades tending the towns only licensed restaurant, he should have seen it coming.
He first heard Nettie Spencer refer to herself in the third person as he unloaded beer steins from the aging rotary dishwasher. A mental note instantly appeared on the post-it of his brain: That tall vodka/water with a splash of lime, but not too much lime this time, residing in her left hand will be her last.
The fight broke out shortly after the Leaf's game ended. Elaine Solomon, a spry retiree from the main street post office, had Nettie Specncer by the...
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Els Dijkstra - January 25 at 1:23 pm
kahoonas. Elaine, while yelling things like ‘what happened to Gordie, I truly loved him’, decided to leave the room, as kahoonas was not her favourite part of Nettie.
She entered Dale’s Tubesteak Emporium and landed on her somewhat square butt protesting the assualt she had suffered from
Chad Bustin - January 27 at 3:06 pm
shoulder and had the look in her eyes not only of a woman scorned, but of one who was drunk and stubborn to boot. She had been peaceful enough before but she had gotten increasingly more cranky as her retirement reached it’s 3rd month. Bill, the old kook who lived across from the Bank said again and again that this might be the one time in history that someone was actually happier being inside a Post Office than being out. Strange folk, these friends of his…
Eleanor - January 31 at 4:52 pm
...who didn’t know what to do with her free time. It may be true that Elaine missed the social banter of Post-Office employment, and subsequently found herself surveying the tube steaks around town and getting into cat fights with women half her age. The Stumbling Monkey was great for that. That Nettie really deserved it this time, especially after she…
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