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About the Author: Ricky Sprague, writer and cartoonist, has stories published in many fine publications, including MYSTERY MAGAZINE, DIE LAUGHING, ASININE ASSASSINS, CRIMEUCOPIA: AS IN FUNNY HA-HA OR JUST PECULIAR, ELLERY QUEEN, and JACKED. The attached story is a sequel to one of the stories I had in the DIE LAUGHING collection.
When composing one of these narratives I’m never quite sure how much ground to re-cover in re: catching the reader up on prev. events. Naturally I’d rather not alienate the existing aud which has devoured all my prev. stories. At the same t if this is your first encounter with yrs very truly I need to make sure you’re thoroughly speeded.
All this by way of saying: in a prev. story I inherited a percentage of a vinegared shorties concern from the pater of a beazel who had the misfortune to expire whilst she and I were engaged to be matrimonied. While I enjoy being monied, I most esp. don’t wish to be matrimonied.
Corking wordplay, that!
Anyhoo, no sense further ad nozzing the preface. Now let’s establish that my valet, Jaspers, was off gallivanting on some “restorative sojourn” (his words), leaving me to my devices. Being a member of the noblesse I prefer to hold my devices in abeyancy, ergo I opted to contract for a temp valet with the Burgess Gentleman’s Gentleman Service. The specimen whose shadow crossed the old threshold was called Upton. Whether that was the sur- or Christian-name I wasn’t inclined to ask.
Though my age or mayhaps younger his pan betrayed a troubled spirit. This might have coloured my own behaviour in re: my treatment of the creature. I let out the leash in a way that was a bit out of character.
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