Monster World by Michael James Ploof

Author:Michael James Ploof [Ploof, Michael James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Traveling Bard Publishing
Published: 2019-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

I dashed toward the river.

“Help!” she hollered, and the fear in that word made my heart drop.

Her voice led me to the riverbank, about halfway back to where I had tied off the raft, and I realized she must be floating down the river. When I crashed through the bushes, I nearly fell face first into the water, but I caught myself on a tree.

She was floating along on the raft. She spotted me and waved. “Where’s the pole?”

“It fell in.”

“How the hell did it fall in?”

“Who cares? Just do something.”

I glanced at Doughboy and wondered if he could stretch far enough. He must have known what I was thinking, because he backed away and shook his head.

“Come on, D. You can do it.”

“Not sweeeet,” he grumbled.

“Yeah, but if you save the princess and our raft, It will be really sweet.”

“Sweeeet?” He considered it for a moment, then nodded reluctantly.

“Thanks, bro.”

Doughboy groused and wrapped one arm around a nearby tree trunk, then he shot the other arm out over the water. It grew as thin as a breadstick and nearly 50 feet long, but it reached the raft and attached to the wood.

“Holy shit, D, you did it!”

The raft stopped moving downriver and angled toward shore. The princess might have made it if she had stayed put, but she crawled to the nearest corner to be closer to Doughboy’s long appendage.

Her extra weight, and the way that the raft was already tilting due to being tethered to Doughboy against the current, caused the corner to dip below the water. After that, it was over.

She slid into the water and took Doughboy’s appendage along with her. He grunted, let go of the raft, and stretched to the max, while the river tried to tear the princess from his grip.

“Don’t let go!” I told them both. I grabbed Doughboy’s arm and pulled them in.

Somehow the little wad kept himself together, and we successfully brought the sodden princess up on shore.

By then, the raft had floated away out of sight.

“I tied the raft to a tree stump. What the hell happened?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” she said and coughed up water.

She was keeping something from me. “Eva, what did you do?”

“I… I might have gotten bored,” she said sheepishly. “And I might have untied the line from the boat.”

“Why in the hell would you do that?”

“I wanted to practice braiding,” she said in a near whisper.

“You wanted to practice braiding?” I was astonished. A mirthless laugh escaped me. “Wow, Just wow. I hope it was worth it, because now we don’t have a raft.”

“You’re the one who jumped off the raft!” she suddenly bellowed, wringing out the hem of her dress.

‘To get you food!”

“Oh, so you’re not going to eat any of it?”

“That’s not the point,” I retorted. “Bah!”

“Not sweeeet,” D croaked. He looked like shit, and his stretched arm wasn’t snapping back like it should have.

“Damn it, look at Doughboy. He’s friggin’ waterlogged.”

“So am I!”

“Calm down and be quiet,” I hissed and glanced around.

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