The Monkey's Wedding by Joan Aiken

Author:Joan Aiken [Aiken, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, Short Fiction
ISBN: 9781931520744
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2011-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

Greet your green love upon the candled shore . . .

But he could go no further than the first line. Try as he would, his thoughts turned to his uncle, to his uncle’s mission the next day in Portsbourne, and without volition his mind began to run in another direction, and to form lines:

Drinking “Tio Pepe,”

Thinking about Rose,

That’s the way the evening

Generally goes:

Seven, put the cat out,

Eight, make the tea,

Nine, do the crossword

Or peer at ITV . . .

Irritably he rolled over, kicking the vestigial bedclothes onto the floor. “You won’t like sherry!” he threw at the attendant octopi. “It’ll make you liverish.” And he buried his head again.

Next morning Denis, pale, feverish, but determined, was visiting a psychiatrist. His uncle was out of the way in Portsbourne; it was a golden opportunity.

“You can’t sleep?” said Dr. Finlay. He spoke as if it was no great matter.

“I haven’t slept for twenty years,” Denis explained. “I get all my best ideas at night.”

“Your best ideas?”

“Advertising gimmicks,” Denis said gloomily. “I’m in charge of the publicity for Cobbleigh’s Cream Stout.”

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