For reasons best known to them, the ‘good’ folks of Hopeless Maine ‘invited’ me to write a story for their blog. They did this by repeatedly blaming me for things, all of which I was completely blameless for…
Sure I looked at a map of the island and saw a spoon-walker depicted in one small corner of it and joked it was clearly to scale and was therefore Spoon-Kong.
And sure this passing aside of mine may have inspired Nimue to write a story featuring Spoon-zilla… But how is that my fault?
And sure I may have suggested to the folks of Hopeless that Spoon-zilla and Spoon-Kong clearly therefore should have an epic battle somewhere on the island, in jest…
“Yes, you should write that.” they said…
“Oh what the hell, sure…” I replied thinking that I could days out a few hundred words of silly monster combat and that would be that…
It was a this point things go out of hand… Because I love Hopeless Maine and if I am invited to write for them then I could not possibly just hack something together. I had to try and make something worthy of being placed on the island… Which is why this is just part one and doesn’t really involve spoon-walkers for the most part.
By Mark Hayes
In the aftermath of broken bottles and stamped on night potatoes no one was entirely sure what had happened. No one even admitted to having been there. The most anyone would admit was knowing someone who knew someone who had been there. There were no witnesses because no one was willing to admit to having been there and witnessing the event and by mutual unspoken agreement those who had seen others in attendance and been seen themselves never spoke of it directly.
Everyone one was however more than happy to apportion blame, as ever.
In this case though that blame was easy enough apportioned. It was the fault of the newcomer. The man in the red-tailed jacket who had washed up on the shores of the island less than a month before in most unlikely circumstances. Barham P Bingley. Just how he had washed up in a…
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