Cal.E. is calling me. I think she might have good news!
C.: Hi, d.c. I see that the name change on your book went through. I saw it on my search engine CNN (Cats Need kNowledge). The publisher also dropped the last “t” in Scott, your last name. It is now “The Magruder Mysteries: Precision; A Crime of Passion.” By d.c. scot. Why did you make the changes?
d.: I just thought that the name would fit the series better since it would chronologically be the second book in the series. I am working on the prequel now. It is called “The Inert Ingredient.” I dropped the hast “t” in my last name because there are two other D.C. Scotts who are well-known.
Enough about me and my books, how did your meeting with your mom and dad go?
C.: Good! Mom and Dad took me to their lawyers, Bob, and Ana Otto (a.k.a. Mom and Pop Otto). They sometimes go by Mom and Pop because they work with their three daughters, Eve, Ada, and Hannah. It is a family business.
The Ottos got everything straightened out. I now live with Mom and Dad and their annoying dog, Buddy Bones. At least he is old and does not want to play all the time!
d.: Cal.E., did you look up the word “palindrome” on CNN after I told you that yesterday’s date, 12/1/21 (and the next eight) are palindromes?
C.: n-n- no. Well, maybe. But I am NOT making this up (except for the lawyers’ names and most of the rest of the story). I AM living with Mom and Dad now, though, d.c. If I don’t answer my phone, that is where I will be.
d.: Why don’t you tell me a little more about Buddy Bones? I have forgotten his story.
C.: Sure!
Buddy’s real name is Boudreaux the Beagle Mix. He had to change his name because he was being hunted by the dog catcher, as well as other authorities. He bit ten mailmen in one day! He broke two bones in two mailmen’s hands. That is why he adopted the name “Buddy Bones.”
Mom and Dad took him in with the understanding that he would pay for his crime by wearing a reminder of what he did all the time. He must always wear a mailman’s uniform now. I cannot show you the real Buddy Bones because he is in the witness protection program. He gave up the names of three other dogs that helped him trap the mailmen so that he could bite them. That is why he was called “the baddest dog in all of Texas.” Now, mailmen think that he disappeared from the face of the Earth! If a mailman found out that he was still alive, s/he may go postal on him! That is all I can tell you about “Buddy Bones,” d.c. Anything else would endanger his life, as well as Mom and Dad’s (and maybe mine, too).
d.: Okay, thanks, Cal.E. I will call you tomorrow. Maybe you can tell another interesting story about someone you met while you were in the kennel for rehab.
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