Still Hot

Once again it is a hot and sultry day. I am dripping wet. No, no, didn't fall into a tub... that woulda been nice...

The veriest hint of a breeze tickled the mangled curtain bound by a sagging wooden clothespin. At last -

"That wind is too strong!"

You gotta be kidding me! Damn sauna cesspool. Woulda been nice in Denver. Heard it was 17 degrees in Denver. That woulda been nice...

"I can leave. I don't have to be here."

Yeah, right. I could let you go hurt yourself some more, sitting on your spine aslant on your hydraulic bed... I don't think so.

Frick.

It was a hot and sultry day - 1

It was a hot and sultry day.

There was no shot in sight: to pour or not to pour, that was the question. Whether twas nobler (or at least more satisfying) to submit to the urge to indulge or to resist and wilt - that was the issue at hand.

Max paused. Well, what else can one with paws do but pause?

A sip now, a pounce later. The plan was set.

tbc