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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 1, 2012 - 7:29pm

Quick, you and me in a 67 Mustang convertible, we got a suitcase full of blow and we are running from a group of terrorist art dealers from Paraguay...pick a weapon, a vice, a super power, someone to rescue.... and the destination of our secret hideout

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig July 1, 2012 - 8:24pm

Weapon--M4, because it is similar to the M16 I am familiar with, but with a collapsible buttstock that works better for short people like me.

Vice: Alochol

Superpower: Super ass kicking powers.

Someone to rescue: A heartbreakingly gorgeous man with six pack abs and a heart of gold.

Secret Hideout: Mexico City. Sounds a bit like a trope, but we're coming in from the South.

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Limbless K9 from Oregon is reading Wraeththu July 1, 2012 - 9:01pm

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Nighty Nite from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and Works July 1, 2012 - 9:21pm

Weapon: A rusty shotgun with a flashlight taped to the top and a switchblade tied to the butt.

Vice: Writing My Little Pony fanfiction

Superpower: Eidetic memory and a hypnotic operatic singing voice.

Our rescue: An autistic kid who can solve complex mathematical equations and is hiding the secret to eternal youth.

Secret Hideout: The basement of Gertrude Pickins, local cat lady of Saratoga Springs, New York. She's been dead for 11 years but nobody has discovered the body.

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Weapon: Desert Eagle, because once they see it, you won't even have to fire it.

Vice: Not being able to keep my nose out of that sweet bolivian marching powder. (and expensive prostitutes)

Superpower: The power of flight of course.

Rescue: Busting Walter White out of federal prison. 

Secret Hideout: A seedy motel in downtown Phoenix. 

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Michael J. Riser from CA, TX, Japan, back to CA is reading The Tyrant - Michael Cisco, The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias July 1, 2012 - 10:24pm

"Get down," I'm yelling, but you never give a fuck, you're just leaning out the window with your hair flying back and blood leaking in windblown drips from the sides of your nose as you keep screaming.

"C'mon, boys! Foxy's got a pistol! Foxy got a gun!"

And here I am behind the wheel while you gleefully fire off the remaining ammo.

So I throw another fish behind us as we almost skid into the guardrail, the fish jumping in the bucket, sloshing around the vodka I'm keeping with them so it stays cold, and all I want is a drink. I throw another fish instead. It smacks into the windshield of the car behind us, dances there for a minute, then flies off over the edge of the cliff back into the water.

Another bullet rips past and I swear to God you're trying to catch it with your face.

"Will you please just get down?" You're laughing, but I'm not, and my eyes are going red. The adrenaline rush is making my head spin. "I'm stressed out and I really don't need to be this stressed out right now."

"No baby," you say, "you cool as ice. Just drive! We're almost there!"

And we are. But I still don't want to rescue your husband.

Another bullet, this one sending pieces of your hair through the wind, and it's gold, like straw, like the fields just up from the cottage. That place we'll never go again because you just had to buy the painting. So beautiful for the loft, you said. It'd look great, you said. And it did look great for the whole two days you left it up. But soon as I was gone, you stripped it, soaked it, let the powder run out, and you strained that, dried it, did whatever the hell it is you do, that Foxy magic, and now all that blow is in the back of the Mustang, and just because I'm the only adulterer boyfriend you know with superhuman reflexes—the kind that can keep your ass from falling out of the car while staying on the road and chucking fish at a pack of pissed-off Paraguayans in a '66 four-door Chevy Malibu—I've got to do all this with you. We're not only on the run, because no, that'd be too easy. Now we've got to grab your old man, too, because these guys somehow thought the balding fuck would be leverage.

And I guess he is. You always were a sentimental.

The things I do for love.

So fine, I said, let's find him, but I'm really just looking forward to stashing him somewhere, taking the magic suitcase with the magic powder, and slipping off to a beach somewhere on the other end of the planet with you. And no more of this stuff, no more hostage rescues. I'll be sleeping off a bender in a cabana with you on that beach, somewhere with pink and green drinks with umbrellas, with weird breakfast foods that taste like dinner that you end up eating at 3 in the afternoon because you keep waking up at 1.

And now you're finally aiming the gun at somebody up ahead standing outside the shack as we approach it. Or maybe at the guy next to the black van another ten feet past that. You're firing off again, and God I wish you had superhuman reflexes, or aim, or anything other than that superhuman T&A, but I don't see any bodies dropping.

And you're laughing again, coked out of your mind.

Fine, I said, let's do it, let's save your old man before we run. What an idiot. When will I learn?

I pick up another fish. I chuck it back at the Malibu.

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Michael J. Riser from CA, TX, Japan, back to CA is reading The Tyrant - Michael Cisco, The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias July 1, 2012 - 10:23pm

Apparently I felt like writing. I guess this is what happens when you combine cheap beer and Red Bull.

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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 1, 2012 - 10:31pm

I'm torn between six pack abs and my little pony fan fic...

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest July 2, 2012 - 1:38am

Weapon: Mass mind control

Vice: Satanism

Super Power: Hypnosis/subliminal messaging

Our Rescue: Ourselves

Secret Hideout: Bohemian Grove

 

 

 

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underpurplemoon from PDX July 2, 2012 - 2:24am

I'm torn between six pack abs and my little pony fan fic...

six-pack abs

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 2, 2012 - 3:29am

Weapon: .30-06 Springfield

Vice: I don't do vices. It's a weakness. Which is my vice. Fear of weakness. 

Superpower: Seeing the future

Our rescue: Linton Robinson

Secret Hideout: Somewhere in the mountains. I can't tell you any morre than that. It is a secret after all. 

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry July 2, 2012 - 5:20am

My vote for the Rescue goes to Mattack.  Good call, man.  Good call.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 2, 2012 - 5:23am

Our rescue: Linton Robinson"

 

I just know he's out there. Somewhere. 

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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 2, 2012 - 5:25am

R.Moon our adventure could be either a slightly darker On the Road, or a lighthearted Helter Skelter and that intrigues me

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest July 2, 2012 - 5:30am

Our adventure begins, and ends, with the Illuminati.

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Grigori Black from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda Gowin July 2, 2012 - 6:11am

A weapon: I am a weapon.

A vice: A woman. It's always a woman.

A super power: Unstoppable.

Someone to rescue: No time for names, get in the car and keep your head down.

The destination of our secret hideout: I'd tell you but... you know the rest. Now get in the fucking car.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 6:14am

Linton.

Ah, the good old days.  Remember when...?  Yeah, me too.  Simpler times.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry July 2, 2012 - 6:15am

Better times.  Before group mockery and mass derision could make people decide not to associate with us. 

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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 2, 2012 - 6:29am

grigori you are currently winning by appealing to my sexual desire for Liam Neeson and general badassery.... Get in my pants...there is no time to explain

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry July 2, 2012 - 6:30am

You've got her so worked up she can't even type.  That is a very special skill.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 6:30am

Sometimes I feel like this is an internet version of Dawson's Creek.

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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 2, 2012 - 7:31am

The internet version is always better...

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Chris Davis from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews July 2, 2012 - 7:41am

Weapon: Machetes, I've been watching a lot of Robert Rodriguez movies.

Vice: Jolt Cola mixed with blow

Superpower: Zach Morris' "Time-out" ability from Saved by the Bell

Someone to rescue: We are on a mission to stop Mit Romney from baptizing dead people

Secret Hideout: BYU, hiding in plain sight

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Jack Campbell Jr. from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp Meyer July 2, 2012 - 7:41am

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Jack Campbell Jr. from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp Meyer July 2, 2012 - 7:45am

Weapon: Dumb luck.

Vice: Nose picking. Don't touch the bottom of the seat.

Super Power: Murphy's Law. In my experience, couple that with dumb luck and you are unstoppable.

Someone to rescue: Anyone. I'm not picky. Not you.

Secret Hideout: Random House. Not the publisher, literally a random house.

 

 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 7:46am

And I actually spent 44 seconds watching that.

Everyone choose your parts!!!

 

 

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Jack Campbell Jr. from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp Meyer July 2, 2012 - 7:51am

I'll be the straight one. Who's the straight one?

Didn't mean that as homophobic as it sounded. Sarcasm is tough on the web.

I never saw a single episode of Dawson's Creek.

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Nighty Nite from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and Works July 2, 2012 - 7:52am

I'll be Katie Holmes.

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Jack Campbell Jr. from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp Meyer July 2, 2012 - 7:58am

If I can get half of Tom Cruises money, I will be Katie Holmes.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 8:01am

I want to be the one who has a nervous breakdown. 

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Chris Davis from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews July 2, 2012 - 8:07am

I wanna be the kid from the Mighty Ducks

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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 2, 2012 - 8:19am

Nobody wants to be Jennifer Williams

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 8:19am

"Mighty Ducks"

You mean Joshua Jackson.  He worked with Emilio again....

 

I love that movie and I just hooked on to any chance to mention it.

 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 8:20am

@Foxy - no one wants to be the homewrecker, it just happens. 

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 2, 2012 - 8:38am

You bastards! I don't want to be Pacey! 

 

 

 

 

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Nighty Nite from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and Works July 2, 2012 - 8:40am

You can be the creek.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 2, 2012 - 8:42am

Oh thank god. 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 8:44am

Yeah, you couldn't be Pacey. 

I see you more like...the grandmother. 

 

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 2, 2012 - 8:44am

I was thinking the same thing for you. Or the one white trash resident of the town.

 

 

"Get off my god damn porch you fucking townies!"

 

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FoxyLenz from Shangri -L.I is reading Mists of Avalon July 2, 2012 - 8:47am

That'll teach Joey to not put out

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 8:48am

I can be Dawson's whore mother who files for divorce and devastates the town!!!

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 2, 2012 - 8:53am

I could see that. Then you change your mind and get back together with him. 

 

 

 

Whore. 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 8:56am

Shoot, Dawson's dad was a handsome guy.  I'd have gone back to him too.

 

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig July 2, 2012 - 10:41am

Desert Eagle, because once they see it, you won't even have to fire it.

 

The side of MY gun says Desert Eagle point five oh. YOUR gun says 'Replica' on the side....

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters July 2, 2012 - 11:55am

Wait, you don't ask questions in a letter?

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Nighty Nite from NJ is reading Grimscribe: His Lives and Works July 2, 2012 - 12:08pm

The side of MY gun says Desert Eagle point five oh. YOUR gun says 'Replica' on the side....

 

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. July 2, 2012 - 1:03pm

The side of MY gun says Desert Eagle point five oh. YOUR gun says 'Replica' on the side....

 

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Jack Campbell Jr. from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp Meyer July 2, 2012 - 1:08pm

Most...awesome...scene...ever.