Starring: Matt Bomer as Guy Handsome, Jared Leto as Joe Handsome and Special Guest Star Rosario Dawson as the Goddess Pele.
Joe closed his laptop and sighed. “It shipped and they can't reroute it.” He sighed.
Guy was pacing. “Hey can't we go out and just buy one, then flip for who reads it first?”
“Maybe if the Pig had tipped.” Joe said. “But no, we need to eat if we are going to work, and we need to pay rent, and oh yeah, we need electrical and water...”
“How long was the waiting list at the library?” Guy asked again, as if invoking the number could make it shrink.
“It would be easier getting tickets to Lion King, On Broadway, in New York City.” Joe relied, thinking to put it in less concrete terms for his brother.
It was only because of their domiciliary's proximity to that of the Madams Soo that our Handsome Brothers didn't indulge themselves in a volley of obscenities. That and Guy had worked in Elementary Schools for so long that he found cussing to be a near impossible act anymore.
As they left their small but totally cool home to go to work, the brothers slathered on sunblock, and waved to the Madams Soo, who were, by some coincidence, always on the back porch when the brothers were buttering up for a day of pedaling tourists all over.
Today was no exception; however, both sisters were peering over a hardcover copy of Changes by Jim Butcher.
Guttural noises of dismay broke from brotherly lips as they rode to the cab stand. There, four of their fellow pedicabbies were lounging, waiting for fares and reading Changes, by Jim Butcher. Two other had earbuds in. The Brothers didn't feel the need to ask.
Cut to commercial: Changes by Jim Butcher http://www.jim-butcher.com/store/ just get it and read it.
Pele spent the day with her nose in a book, the title of which we will leave it to our readers to guess. If the brother's had put on hair shirts and lederhosen she would not have noticed, let alone a shirt!
“This is killing me!” Guy lamented, his words plaintive and sincere.
“Hey, I was thinking...” Joe cut off his comment.
“A dangerous pastime.” Guy responded.
“I know.”
The brothers still managed to get a laugh out of that, despite their need of an Urban Horror fantasy fix.
Joe continued, “we are pretty lucky guys, actually.”
“True, but how so in particular?” Guys responded.
“We could have been cursed to never read our favorite author again!” The very thought of which cause the brothers to shudder in unison.
Our next episode: Hang Loose.
Author’s note: This was first written when the hard cover of Changes by Jim Butcher first came out. Now the book is out in paper back. It has been on the NYTimes best seller list for at least two weeks. If you haven’t read Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series of books? Start now! You won’t regret it.
