From inside the tent where I was laying out the water and urine proof LeekTek450 sleeping bag, I heard my girlfriend squeal, &quot;Ooh, fireflies! How pretty.&quot; I should have been worried, as it was 9 in the morning. Then I heard her say, &quot;Are you children lost?&quot; That's when I really started to worry. I scrambled out of the tent far too slowly to stop her from saying, &quot;Why don't you come by the fire,&quot; and motioning them over my carefully arranged stones. The three children stepped across the threshold, immediately changing appearance in a shimmering of magical light. The leader bore a wicked, toothy grin on his tiny mouth. The scrawny one to his left squinted about nervously. The shorter, pudgy one just hitched his ragged trousers up and snorted in apparent self-satisfaction. My girlfriend, she wasn't pleased. I think she wanted to scream but couldn't. If she had peed her pants, I wouldn't tell you. I'm a gentleman, you see. &quot;We're here,&quot; the stout fellow announced loudly, &quot;for the Gnud!&quot; 2008-03-17T20:25:23Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/20564 <p>Nice, the subconscious tension built up over the past few episodes comes to a head &#8211; now how will the conflict pan out, I wonder. That is if there is any conflict at all. Maybe the three little guys want to hlp the gnud, or, then again, maybe not :-)</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/20564?basename=49282 2008-03-17T20:25:23Z Ridcully Calvert http://ficlets.com/authors/user_joon <p>Terrific stuff! Keep it up!<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/20564?basename=45199 2008-03-03T00:23:17Z emma jo_234 http://ficlets.com/authors/emmaj <p>truly a funny series<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/20564?basename=40570 2008-02-12T19:02:59Z SKermitgorf http://ficlets.com/authors/kermitgorf <p>Sequel will come soon enough. I don&#8217;t write often, and I don&#8217;t want sequels of my own stuff to come right after one another. I realize there is no inherent logic to this, but it&#8217;s what I do. Sequel should come along in a day or so, especially since it&#8217;s already plotted out in my head. Thanks for the nice comments, both of you.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/20564?basename=39869 2008-02-09T15:14:13Z THX 0477 http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477 <p>sequel!!!!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/20564?basename=39867 2008-02-09T14:56:57Z Apostrophe http://ficlets.com/authors/murphyrose27 <p>I like the line: &#8216;If she had eed her pats, I wouldn&#8217;t tell you. I&#8217;m a gentleman you see.&#8217; So cute. And I like how they looked like children first until his girlfriend lead them over the stones. Keep up the good work.<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/20564?basename=39750 2008-02-09T03:04:48Z .:band baby:. http://ficlets.com/authors/bandbaby