The low word count on this one, because it’s little more than a outline with an opening and some intermittent dialog. The story, about amusement park employees who try to get an asshole who plays Batman fired, is some light fun, and I feel I’m doing the story adequate justice by having it so loose. Have to keep up on the story count as well as the word count, after all.
I’m thinking I may to a few other “outline drafts” on the same theme of folks who dress up as Batman, or superheroes in general. It’s something I’ve thought alot about.
“Fucking Batman, what does he know about anything?” Gary ripped off his black domino mask and threw it down on the craft table. “I swear, if he criticizes my quips one more time!”
The rest of the guys in the break room tried not to look at Gary’s tirade. He went through about four a week. In my opinion, Gary was a little high strung for hero-work. I mean, I knew I was getting paid to hang around the theme park dressed in tights, shake hands with the kids, get my picture taken. I wasn’t Wonder Woman. I was Gina. Gina who dressed as the Flash on weekends.That was the tact the other guys took as well. It was a costume, not an identity.
But Gary, Gary threw himself into it they way other guys didn’t. He wasn’t dressed as Robin, for the weekend, he was Robin.
Which was a raw deal, really.Batman was a total ass…
An author, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that he's lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it.
He is a founding member of the daily flash-fiction website 365 TOMORROWS, and the writer and producer of two science-fiction podcasts, “The Voice Of Free Planet X” and the serial “Aliens You Will Meet.
He is not domestic, he is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
