{"id":377,"date":"2014-08-06T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T03:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2014-08-06T20:07:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T03:07:47","slug":"a-gishwhes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"A GISHWHES Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dear friend approached me this week and asked me for a story. \u00a0It’s for\u00a0GISHWHES<\/a>, and if you haven’t heard of that,\u00a0it’s okay. \u00a0I won’t judge you harshly, because I didn’t know about it until recently myself. \u00a0If you don’t want to click on the link, I’ll just say it’s a great big scavenger hunt for charity.<\/p>\n

It seems pretty cool. \u00a0I guess Misha Collins<\/a>\u00a0started it, or runs it? \u00a0I have a lot of respect for Mr. Collins, just based on the stuff I’ve read about him. \u00a0I enjoy him on Supernatural, and I think the charity work he’s done is pretty fantastic.<\/p>\n

Here is the item my friend was looking to me to complete:<\/p>\n

Get a previously published Sci-Fi author to write an original story (140 words max) about Misha, the Queen of England and an Elopus: 59 POINTS.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside from not knowing what an Elopus<\/a> was, I had another difficulty with this request: I don’t think I’m “previously published.”<\/p>\n

I told my friend, but she said it probably wasn’t a problem. \u00a0She said that my\u00a0blog was probably enough.<\/p>\n

I don’t think my friend realizes how much it meant to me that she asked me for this. \u00a0Apparently, some other people<\/a>\u00a0became\u00a0upset\u00a0after they were\u00a0asked. \u00a0I don’t begrudge them for this. \u00a0It isn’t always cool to ask someone to do their job for free. \u00a0And people do have busy lives. \u00a0I was busy myself, and couldn’t get to the story until tonight, even though it was only 140 words long.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve droned on enough. \u00a0Without further ado, here is what I sent her:<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The monstrosity raised its long nose and trumpeted an angry blast as it charged.\u00a0 It rolled forward on six, suction cupped tentacles.\u00a0 Its oily black eyes reflected the rough cave, as well as the man that stood defiantly before it: Misha Collins.<\/p>\n

Misha met the creature\u2019s charge with a crack from his staff.\u00a0 Both man and beast were weary from their long battle, but the fight was nearly won.\u00a0 Misha feinted, side-stepped, then swung. \u00a0The wood shattered.\u00a0 The elopus dropped.\u00a0 Pungent black ink puddled around the fallen creature.<\/p>\n

“You did it!” cried Avy. “Let\u2019s get the princess and go!”<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re not here to save a princess,” Misha said, his voice rough.\u00a0 He walked to the cage the elopus had been protecting and ripped away the tarp covering it.\u00a0 Inside was a woman of advanced age.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re here for the Queen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A dear friend approached me this week and asked me for a story. \u00a0It’s for\u00a0GISHWHES, and if you haven’t heard of that,\u00a0it’s okay. \u00a0I won’t judge you harshly, because I didn’t know about it until recently myself. \u00a0If you don’t want to click on the link, I’ll just say it’s a great big scavenger hunt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}