Curious Critters-Vol.II

By Wynn Parks

Curious Critters Vol. II- Continues the audacious, comic adventures of Boggs Pumpelly and Bud Ricks, in script form; tales of two country boys living amid the hills and hollows of north Alabama. If there's a strange critter--- animal or human--- anywhere in the hills, Boggs' and Bud's path seem destined to cross with them. Were it not for the boys' solemn reassurance as to the total truth and objective reality of their encounters, Curious Critters might well be mistaken for tall tales, by the ignorant. But then, somebody once said there were more critters under the sun than were dreamed of by the Ignorant's philosophy ... For example:
Episode IV: "Workin for the Colonel"- A tale of chiggers and revenge. Bud and Boggs endure a plague of chiggers; a river of calamine lotion; getting busted, jailed and fined for moonshining, and all from trying to get in good with their boss.
Episode V: "Over the Limit & Over the Line"- Bud and Boggs are caught exceeding their limit and hunting without a licenses during duck season. The boys claim there is a perfectly logical explanation for the whole misunderstanding. The wildness of their defense drives the court to distraction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wynn Parks
• Release date: Jun 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311347848

Wynn Parks

Wynn Parks was born in the southern U.S., and raised on Air Force Bases scattered from the Philippines to Turkey. Growing up as a "military brat" bred into him the love of travel that has motivated so many of his life choices, and piqued his fascination with with such famous travelers as Odysseus, Ibn Battuta, and Burton.The author put himself through college at South Dakota's Black Hills State University, and later the Iowas Writers' Workshop by working summers as Driller's Helper in the eastern Wyoming coal fields.After six months as a Dobey-Paisano Fellow at the University of Texas, he spent a winter in an Alaskan bush camp as an exploration geologist. There he managed to save enough for traveling expenses to get him to the Greek island of Paros, where he contracted to teach Creative Writing at The Aegean School of Fine Arts. Having lived in the Aegean as a boy, going to Paros felt like a homecoming. Though he forayed off-island to Europe, North Africa,and Iran,it was Paros that was his haven from the middle Seventies through the mid-Eighties.In 2010, Parks was awarded a fellowship at the Hawthornden International Writers' Retreat, south of Edinburgh, Scotland. Two of the offerings published on Smashwords, originated at the Hawthornden Castle.Several of the stories featured on Smashwords are excerpted from the author's "arabesque" novel, "Songs from Dinosaki's Jukebox". "Jukebox" grew out of the author's years in Greece and, earlier, Turkey, and his life-long sense of connection with the Aegean.The author currently lives in the United States in Blue Mountain Beach, Florida.

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Curious Critters:

The Adventures of Bud and Boggs

Vol. II

By

Wynn Parks

Copyright Wynn Parks

Smashwords Edition

This book is a work of fiction. Names characters, places and incidents either are a product of the author's imagination or are used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, to business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used, or reproduced in any form, or by any means without the prior written permission of Wynn Parks.

These tales dedicated to Joint, my Sand Mountain muse.

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Episode IV: Workin' For The Colonel

Hello folks, my name's Boggs Pumpelly. You're not gonna believe what I'm gonna tell you, but I swear it's true. Some time ago, me and my friend Bud was out cuttin' pulp-wood for Colonel Holiday…

(Popping Of Chain-Saw; Voice Yells Timber! Tree Crashes. Saw Cuts Off.)

Boggs: Sun's straight up, Bud. I believe it's time to sit and have us a bite. (Grunts) Ah-h.

Bud: You keep sittin' on dead-fall timber and you'll sure enough get a bite. Them old trash piles are full of crawlin' things… The colonel's not fixin' to give us grace time on our contract just 'cause you're sittin' at