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der_umgekehrte

15 - I'll be home for Christmas...

Dec 16, 2011 19:59

I'm back, and so are our boys who were stationed in Iraq. I'd like everyone to keep all the troops in the armed forces who are still in Afghanistan in your prayers this season.

[Filtered to phone call to town paper]You guys doing a big Christmas issue again? Or 'holiday' or 'solstice' or whatever that snobby liberal in the top office calls it ( Read more... )

breach: a very special barge christmas, alt:bruce stildyne

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[Text Message] expectremorse December 17 2011, 06:16:38 UTC

BRUCE! You big lug. Where are you? Kathy's got dinner ready

[Text Message] stildyne December 17 2011, 06:26:29 UTC

Merry Christmas, Mark! Just seeing how everyone was doing in town, grabbing a coffee and a little free wi-fi. Still planning on letting me use your guest room?

Re: [Text Message] expectremorse December 17 2011, 06:29:31 UTC

Of course. Kathy won't hear of anything else. I think she might even come and drag you out.

...Be warned, house is a little full but I won't say no. You can help me decorate the house.

[Text Message] stildyne December 17 2011, 06:32:31 UTC

Sure thing.

BTW do you still get the paper?

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brbculling December 17 2011, 20:56:50 UTC

Welcome home, sir. Happy holidays.

[You don't mouth off to the military in the Menning household.]

stildyne December 17 2011, 21:04:13 UTC

Happy holidays, son. How are your folks doing?

brbculling December 17 2011, 21:17:05 UTC

...They're fine. Sir.

[They cut off his trust fund :[ ]

stildyne December 17 2011, 21:24:03 UTC

[What's that sullen face for? Bruce gives a reassuring look.]

I'm a reservist these days, you know, you don't have to call me sir. I appreciate that your family respects the military but I'm not your drill sergeant. I'm non-comm anyway. [Not that he doesn't think the kid could use one from time to time, but that's not Bruce's business.]

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[On the Phone] I'M NOT BOTHERING WITH ICONS impure_tale December 18 2011, 04:39:07 UTC

[It's a slow day; Nathan Desaid is the only one in the office right now, because he's not taking lunch.]

That's right.

[On the Phone] FOR ONCE I AM SO IT EVENS OUT :D stildyne December 18 2011, 04:41:31 UTC

[Oh no it's you ): Bruce sighs and forges on.]

I have a notice I'd like to run. If I bring it by the office today will it be in in time for Sunday's paper?

[On the Phone] impure_tale December 18 2011, 04:43:00 UTC

Provided Homeland Security wouldn't like to probe it first, I have no qualms.

[On the Phone -> Spam] stildyne December 18 2011, 04:48:47 UTC

[Bruce is in the office fifteen minutes later. Without comment, but with a noticeable stiffening of his spine, he slaps a tiny piece of printer paper on the desk.

He wrote it himself. In third person. It was a deeply awkward experience and his complete refusal to have someone copy-edit it shows.]
Bruce Stildyne is a seasonal resident in [HAPPY TOWN], a native of [TOUGH CITY]. In an unhappy home life with college seemingly out of reach, he had already decided that the military was his best chance at a better life. He enlisted in the navy at the age of eighteen ( ... )

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