Flash Friday 4-11-14 dinosaur lunchbox in Flash Friday

“ Hey.”

“Hey, so what’s the emergency?”

I pull back the puffy blue down. He looks at the still meat beneath.

“Holy smokes, what’d he do?”

“He called me out my name.”

He paused for a moment, turned his head away until I raised the down coat.

“Mudflap?”

I growled, he recoiled, hands in front of his face, the gesture of ‘no disrespect, just confirming’.

“So, what’s the play?”

“I think we should drag him away from the monkey bars, ten minutes and Old Miss Krueger is calling recess, can’t leave him like this.”

He scratchs his chin.

“I don’t know, what’s more likely, that he fell off the monkey bars, or that a second grader --- a Girl! --- laid him out. Maybe we leave him where the good lord flung him, and tag you’re it our ways cross playground.”

“Hey mudflap!” It was joey whathisname, I kind of wanted to dip his crewcut in an ink well face first and hold it there until the ink stopped bubbling.

“Could you get joey up the monkey bars? He’s a good frame for this one.”

“Maybe, let me think.”