“See I remembered.”
Joe looked down at the thing in his hand. He turned it over. “What is it?”
“I’m hurt darling. You’ve been asking for one for years now.”
“Louise, you have got to be kidding. This is not the car I wanted. It is a hard glob of…well I don’t know what.”
“No, not the car. It is the dog you asked for.”
“The dog …this is no dog. Having you been hitting the wine already?”
“No silly. Here let me see it.”
He handed her the object. She closed her eyes. Suddenly a dog appeared.
An 8 x 10 inch pen drawing highlighted in charcoal pencil and soft pastels.
An elephant rendered in pencil then highlighted using a dollar store pen.
A charcoal pencil drawing of a rabbit.
“Then God said to me, “Noah, I need you to build an ark and it has to be this big by this big.. I wanted to say God, “You me and my son to build a what. Then you want us to put two of every kind of animal inside?” But I know God the rest of the conversation would have gone something like this.”
Me, “God, I’m not a very handy person.”
God would have answered, “No, but you’re a faithful man. Besides I Am, do you not think I couldn’t give you the skills to do a job I called you to do?”
Me again, “No, it’s just I’m an old man. I was just getting ready to retire..”
God once more, “Retirement is cancelled. I’ll expect the ark to be done
Me again, “What about wood and nails? And the gallons of pitch to seal up the cracks..”
God once more, “Noah…”
Me one final time, “Ok, ok…
“Ren-e-gade: someone or something that causes trouble and cannot be contained.”
“Bull$#it, we are superheroes, we help out these humans. Sure we may have moments we wreak havoc on those we seek to save. But they should be thankful we did not let all,of them die some horrible death”
“Renegade, the point is to take out the evil villains without…well let’s say…destroying half of the city.”
“Star Cloud, I’m tired of your self righteous b.s. We get the job done. Isn’t that right Atom Girl?”
“Hey don’t get me in the middle of this.”
A small pencil drawing highlighted In charcoal pencil. I originally drew the picture unpaid down then finished the highlights.
An image drawn upside down then highlighted with charcoal pencil.
An upside drawing of a boy and his big teddy bear. The drawing was done in pencil and charcoal pencil.
