Joel N. Ross

After an hour the score was: Quancita_34 Radiz_51 Sally__roglegs Perla_9 a

Loretta started belting out a song: __ow, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?_ __ know__t__ a dream come true!

What are you doing?_ I asked Loretta. __tabbing a cushion,_ she told me.

Did you just call me __weetie_?_ I asked. She shoved my shoulder. __o.

If Chess is the switch,_ Loretta said, __ow does he turn the Fog off?_ Bea bit her lower lip. __ don__ know__sk Chess._ __ow would I know?_ I said. __ou try being a switch.

Well, the bad news,_ Swedish said from the wheel, __s that Chess still thinks he__ funny._ __hat__ the good news?_ Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. __hat Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?

Are you . . . lost?_ __ot really,_ she told him. __e just don__ know where we__e going.

Are you okay?_ __eah._ __ood,_ she said, __ecause if you fall off a skyscraper, I__l be so mad at you.

We__e alive!_ Swedish told her. __ did not see that coming.

You know what to do?_ __ander around,_ I said. __ntil I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.

Now you__e listening to Swedish ?_ I asked her. __e thinks I__ the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!

...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

Did Cap__ Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny._ __eah,_ I said, __hat__ exactly how I__ describe him.

Keep moving!_ __ea__ arguing with the floor.

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?_ __ don__ even know what language that is.