Date:         Fri, 17 Oct 1997 04:31:51 -0400
From: "Dustin S. Klein" <PPFB@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: INT: Island: Entering the haunted house

   Nobody answers Dustin's alcohol-laced tirade so he
lets out a groan and yells again, "I said, Which way to
the seance, gol'darnit."

   Still, there is silence.

   "This is no phair," cries Phanny, from near the rear of
the menagerie. "Come on, Rqy, we'll phind this thing by
ourselves."

    She grabs Rqy and drags him by the arm past Dustin
and into the house.

    "Phirst we just gotta poke around," suggests Phanny,
then points down a long, winding hallway, dimly lit and
covered with cobwebs.

    "No way!" protests Xiao, who grabs hold of Rqy's pant
leg. "You and the drunken lunatic can go down there. I'm
staying here."

    "Are you a phraidy cat, Xiao?" Phanny taunts.

    Suddenly, in the midst of the discussion there's a flash
of green light, bright enough to nearly blinded the entire
menagerie. From its depths pours forth a gray billowly
cloud that seems to expand in every direction. It is
followed immediately by a hacking cough and a giggle.

   "I have to stop with the dramatic entrances," says Hagatha,
emerging from the cloud. "They just aren't good for my health."

   She composes herself and gives the group a polite bow, then
gestures to the right, down the dark hallway.  "We're holding
the seance through here."

    The group stares down the hallway, then look questioningly
at each other....

                                      Peace

                                      Dustin

In a message dated 97-10-16 11:43:10 EDT, corbett@AXA.SLU.EDU (Phanny)
writes:

> The group plods up the trail.... up, up, up.... around and around....
>  some stopping to rest or admire the tropical vegetation and it's beautiful
>  varigations and blossoms.
>
>  Suddenly Vinnie, the pigtail macaque, leaps smoothly onto Phanny's back
>  and pats the top of her head, pointing excitedly at the house.  Phanny
>  squints in that direction in the waning light and sees Hagatha at a
>  window.  She waves and Hagatha raises a hand somberly in return.  Someone
>  who looked like Bunny, sort of.... goes flying past another window on
>  another floor.
>
>  "Hagatha is waiting for us!  This is gonna be such a treat!"
>
>  "Ummmm.... Phanny?..... Ummm... you dropped something there...." Tom says
>  hesitantly with a smile.
>
>  "Wha....OOOOPS!"  Vinnie's jump had broken the
>  over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder -- coconuts and twine -- and it lay on
>  the ground, broken near a large rock.  No one seems to notice or mind,
>  except Tom, who is studying Phanny intently.
>
>  THWAPPP!!  "All right, you derty ol man!!  Ain'tchu never seen a phemale
>  before?  Would you like a picture?  Here.... I'll see wot I kin do with a
>  palm leaf er two.  Vinnie, go phetch me a couple of them leaves, willya?"
>
>  Vinnie stays securely hugging Phanny about the head, still eyeballing
>  Hagatha at the house.
>
>  "Xiao!  Yo!  Will you git me a couple palm leaves?  This worthless
>  Vinnie...."
>
>  Xiao comes loping up the path around people, grinning like a monkey, and
>  does her bidding.  She plants a kiss and a large island phlower on top of
>  Xiao's bald head.
>
>  The group proceeds to the door of the haunted house, whereupon it swings
>  open, creaking and groaning.  Vinnie has become a permanent kind of winter
>  hat on Phanny's head.  Xiao is likewise glued to his dad, Rqy.  Everyone
>  else is wide-eyed..... all but Dustin.  Dustin is inebriated, celebrating
>  Cleveland's berth in the Whirled Cereal.  He plows through everyone else
>  phrom the rear and marches up to the door, expecting some courteous being
>  to welcome him.
>
>  Dustin enters the great entry and yells "We're here!  Which way to the
>  seance?"
>
>