fantasgreat - Billy and the Golden Butterfly

In Which Little Billy Becomes Lost at Sea

After his father died quite suddenly of fever, his extravagant Aunt Mirdle wanting nothing to do with little boys decided that little Billy was in a need of a proper education. So she packed him up with his trunks full of toys and sent him to Europe aboard the Queen Bethesda, the Behemoth of the Atlantic.

Life aboard ship was horribly dull for little Billy though he did manage to find slight amusement with the pale and fat passengers who laid about on deck chairs drinking martinis and eating popcorn as they talked and talked and talked about their boring affairs back home.

"So I sold the candy store of eighty hundred million dollars," Billy overheard a fat man say to his sickly pale acquaintance, "and I moved in my deluxe intercontinental super-van for seventeen and a half months while they completed my mansion but my decorum engineer person confused my special order of rare venetian glass for venetian blinds with ugly old clear glass windows. It was hideous and disgusting. So after a quick reprimand I moved back into my super -van until the problem was rectificated. And you should just see my super-van. It's a hundred feet long with a five hundred thousand horsepower engine inside and sleeps fifteen adults and is entirely line with silken black stone which helps to keep it from blowing away in a storm."

"He just loves his van," his extra fat wife said from under the brim of her peacock hat ...

But all that grew tiresome on the third day at sea, so little Billy in his apathetic mood took to morning and night ambulations around the decks of the colossal ship. Why his Aunt had not simply put him on an airplane, he could not understand ... Then suddenly (if anything sudden ever happens in vast and lonely expanse of open sea) a gigantic tidal wave broke over the bow of the Queen Bethesda.

The mammoth wave crashed down on the ship with such tremendous force the little Billy was thrusted high into the air ... so very high in fact that by the time he began to fall back down to earth again, the ship had sailed out from underneath him and was many miles away.




	Billy and The Golden Butterfly A nearly epic tale of an orphan's struggle against slightly unfavorable odds on the high seas.
	Drew
We're now enthusiastically accepting submissions for Issue #2: The Underground Issue. Email us with your idea. We'll respond. Note: if your submission sucks, we may not run it.	In Which Little Billy Becomes Lost at Sea After his father died quite suddenly of fever, his extravagant Aunt Mirdle wanting nothing to do with little boys decided that little Billy was in a need of a proper education. So she packed him up with his trunks full of toys and sent him to Europe aboard the Queen Bethesda, the Behemoth of the Atlantic. Life aboard ship was horribly dull for little Billy though he did manage to find slight amusement with the pale and fat passengers who laid about on deck chairs drinking martinis and eating popcorn as they talked and talked and talked about their boring affairs back home. "So I sold the candy store of eighty hundred million dollars," Billy overheard a fat man say to his sickly pale acquaintance, "and I moved in my deluxe intercontinental super-van for seventeen and a half months while they completed my mansion but my decorum engineer person confused my special order of rare venetian glass for venetian blinds with ugly old clear glass windows. It was hideous and disgusting. So after a quick reprimand I moved back into my super -van until the problem was rectificated. And you should just see my super-van. It's a hundred feet long with a five hundred thousand horsepower engine inside and sleeps fifteen adults and is entirely line with silken black stone which helps to keep it from blowing away in a storm." "He just loves his van," his extra fat wife said from under the brim of her peacock hat ... But all that grew tiresome on the third day at sea, so little Billy in his apathetic mood took to morning and night ambulations around the decks of the colossal ship. Why his Aunt had not simply put him on an airplane, he could not understand ... Then suddenly (if anything sudden ever happens in vast and lonely expanse of open sea) a gigantic tidal wave broke over the bow of the Queen Bethesda. The mammoth wave crashed down on the ship with such tremendous force the little Billy was thrusted high into the air ... so very high in fact that by the time he began to fall back down to earth again, the ship had sailed out from underneath him and was many miles away. Next >