STORIES
275 - Inked
2021
Jesse Esmodonti Racolo Aless
Late Monday night in the living room …
JESSE:
… Not bad.
ESMODONTI:
I wanted ‘em in different colors, but Roc said no.
RACOLO:
I never said that.
ESMODONTI:
Ya didn’t? Well, you gave me such a look when I mentioned it.
RACOLO:
You could’ve had them in any color you wanted.
ALESS:
Here we g-go again. They’ve b-been bickering
like this all night.
JESSE:
I like that they’re solid black. It’s bad-ass.
ESMODONTI:
I’m starting to dig ‘em too. Oh, and we already
tested one - and it worked!
RACOLO:
‘Course it worked.
ALESS:
It sure d-d-did. I c-cast a s-s-simple sl-sleep spell on her
and it d-didn’t take.
ESMODONTI:
And I felt it too. I was like tingling all over.
JESSE:
Tingling, huh?
ESMODONTI:
Not a bad sensation, right.
JESSE:
So what happens next?
RACOLO:
We’ll know when the sun comes up.
RACOLO:
… Es, you should try not to stay up all night. If all
goes according to plan - you could be on
daylight time from now on.
ESMODONTI:
Won’t that be fab! I’ll get to be with my little elf-kin all day long.
RACOLO:
He’ll love that.
ESMODONTI:
I better go check on him. Then I’ll be off.
My last night as a true creature of the night.
ESMODONTI:
… And thanks again Roc, you too cherie.
JESSE:
It’s so great to have her back. I hope this all works out for her.
ALESS:
M-me too.
JESSE:
So Roc, what’s next with you?
RACOLO:
Me?
JESSE:
Yeah you. She’s back, and soon she’ll be less vampire-like, and
wasn’t that the problem, I mean your problem with her?
RACOLO:
You don’t know anything.
JESSE:
I know that you and Es have this weird relationship without
any benefits. And man, you could really use those benefits.
Why don’t you ask her out? Go on a date or something.
ALESS:
I th-think th-th-that’s a gr-great idea.
RACOLO:
No it isn’t. You just don’t get it.
Just stay out of my … Oh forget it.
Racolo storms off.
JESSE:
Hey Al, maybe I should take Es out? Then he’d get jealous
and that might snap some sense into him. ‘Course I could end
up with a black eye, but I can take it.
ALESS:
He’s r-r-really b-being a dufus about this, isn’t he?
JESSE:
Oh yeah, absolutely.
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