Sugar Shack

[Wendy]

 

by Sugar and Harry B Sanderford

 

Sunshine slid a cup of coffee across the bar and poured milk from a can until Harry signaled whoa. He watched Harry a moment waiting for that first sip of java to gear up a conversation and when it didn’t offered, “Gol-ding it all, Harry, you look like da pure shit dis mornin'; when da las’ time you slep?"

Harry had a pretty good idea how he looked without Sugar’s bulky beer-slinger pointing it out so he answered Sunshine’s question with one of his own, “When’s the last time you changed the coffee grounds?”

Sugar slipped in through the door behind the bar carrying bags of fruit and bottles of rum from the float up market, and griped, “Can a girl get a little help or are you two gonna be staring each other down like a pair of gorillas all day?”

Sugar, proprietor and namesake of the little island watering hole known as the Sugar Shack, did not intend to referee rounds between Harry and Sunshine and warned them, “If you two can’t put your differences aside and figure out how to get along, then by God, I’m outta here!”

Looking remorseful Sunshine gathered the bags in his big hands and lifted them onto the bar declaring, "Trus’ me, Miz Sugar, I don’ wanna pray to da devil an’ quarrel wif Harry all day long so if you go, I go; ain’t no Sunshine when you gone.”

 

[Wendy]

Thank you for stopping by Joey! We plan on more.
Katers, don't drink alone! Pass the bottle and keep yer weather eye on the horizon.

[Absolutely*Kate]

I drink hearty to the *JOY* which is reading you two characters in fine character . . . once again.

Nice tricks in only six.

~ Absolutely*Kate

[Joey Delgado]

Extremely fun piece to read. Nice dialogue, i love a good banter fest. Keep em coming.

[Wendy]

Thanks, Dude and Kristine!  :)

[Kristine_ES]

wow, how could anyone gripe when they're in a setting like that?  well, maybe i would if the coffee grinds were a decade old..but still!

thank you for the song in my head for the balance of the day. 

[Dude A Bydes]

Clever dialogue, you two. I like the "trouble in paradise" theme, and that last line is a zinger! -Dude

[Harry]

Anytime Sugarcookie! Thanks everyone!

[Wendy]

Mike, BC, Jeanette, and Gita, thank you for the words of encouragement. Writing with Harry is so much fun! I'm game for some collaboration if he is. Har?

[Gita]

Ditto all them guys.

This gave me my first smile of the day with (coincidentally) my first cup of coffee. Perfect collaboration, you two. More PLEASE.

[Jeanette Cheezum]

HAHA    It's been a while. I've missed you two. Sunshine used to work over at the fishdocks around here in the 70's, don'tcha know. I hope you two become a team for a while and let us know what's next `cause there ain't a lot of sugar when Wendy's not around.