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The Best Goddamn BBQ You’ve Ever Had In Your Afterlife

Wormwood wey/wyr/wyrm/wrymself
Connor he/him
Lola she/aloe/aloeself

What a beautiful cookout! Everyone showed up, followed by an ominous crash in the distance.

Three friends sat around the fire, holding out various foods to grill on the pan. They didn’t have a ‘fancy’ barbeque, but this was just as good. These three friends all had a few things in common: They could all perceive one another, they were anything but human, and they all loved a good BBQ.

“Want anymore sosig?” said a round, jolly dark-haired man, freckled in white spots and wiggling cow ears.

“I sure do, thank-ahh-you!” replied a spindly pink creature, multiple slimy appendages twisting around a skewer to pierce into one of the sosigs. Wey took the sosig, placing it delicately on a paper plate.

The third friend, an aloe plant, sat quietly, enjoying the nice atmosphere and sun.

“You sure you don’t want anything, Lola?” The worm creature asked, motioning wyr plate at them. Lola kept sitting.

“Alright then. As much as Connor makes a mean grill, I know you’re a herbivore.”

“Aww shucks, Wormwood! You’re too kind.” Connor grinned, taking a bite of his burger. He scratched the stubble on his chin, then swatted away a fly that was annoying him.

Wormwood chuckled, spitting residue worms out at random. “No, I mean it! Good grub.”

I like a piece of grub myself, being as Greazy as I am.

Connor heard a voice echo through his head. A voice scratched like old vinyl from decades of marketing rung through the air like the stale beat of a dusty drum. Greazeburger Earth Division Representative Martin Greaze hovered into vision.

The three didn’t really know what this odd man was going to do, or why he was carrying a desk lamp. Wormwood squinted, weary to trust the stranger at first.

“If you’re here to rob us, just know I’ve let the worms feed before, and I can do it again.”

Martin chortled, waving wyrms threat off like it was a humorous joke. He darted his eyes at an empty space beside the BBQ, then rustled around in his pockets to reveal a packet of gum. He offered it to the group.

Trust me, if I wanted more stuff I wouldn’t be paying others to take my products off my hands. I just wanna join a nice, friendly cookout and put some good food in my jaw, you know? So what'd ya say, got any extra?

While Wormwood was still suspicious of him, Connor relaxed at the mention of joining the cookout. He was too trusting, Wormwood complained many-a-day, but it was a quality wey admired and slowly learnt from. With slight hesitation, wey wriggled wrymself over to make room for Martin.

Martin grinned, and placed Mr. Shade beside Lola.

wip


"Clowns deserve a healthy and happy life in a large tent with lots of toys - NOT in a cage!" - "Corruption Within The Clown Industry: A Controversial Opinion by Bambousio Starswinger"

I hope you're doing well, fellow ringmasters! I'm glad we can all come here together to talk about our various highs and lows of clown ownership and what comes with it. As a clown breeder, I may know a good deal, but I'll always still feel like a newbie on the inside, haha!

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