Cliff Hanger's

My Hawaii

Crazy Anne.

Crazy enough to pick up roots and move to Lihi'i,
but no so crazy as to go anywhere else.


Crazy Anne Character Sketch

    ANNE: was married for something like 150-years.  It was a good marriage, a solid marriage, and a happy marriage.  And Anne grieved her husband terrible when he finally passed away.  Her grief was so terrible, in fact, that when she finally recovered enough to get on with here life, she realized the only friend she had left in the whole wide world was her cat, Fluffy.  Now, Fluffy is a fine cat and I'm knocking him in the least.  But pretty soon Anne realized she was going to need a little more in her life that just a cat or she might as well be dead.  So without further ado, ole Anne pulled up her roots and moved to Lihi’i -- a place she remembered fondly from her youth, having gotten married here and all.

    Of course after the move, Fluffy was still Anne's best friend, but since he’s a gregarious sort of fellow and happy to share his food (provided there's plenty of it to go around), all of the mongooses on the island introduced themselves to him one by one.

    And that pretty much brings us up to date.  The only tragic part of the tale being that Anne is a vegetarian... and neither a cat’s nor a mongoose’s digestive track is designed to deal with toffee, peanut brittle, cantaloupe, or celery.

    It smell!   
    Bad.
    Real bad.
    Like cross the street to get away from it bad.
    But that still no do no good.
    I tink maybe it the worst thing I ever smell.

    STORY:  Leading to a story about no one taking a bath on the island for weeks on end do to the infamous Dry Spell when the 3 o'clock rains stopped.  Other possible story tie-ins include The De-Da Story in which I do believe Dada contracted to take out the trash, but as we all know, Dada never finishes anything he starts.  (So, he might as well been the one who wrote My Hawaii.)

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    COMMENTARY: The truth is, I've already added a fair bit to the story notes (and omitted some points altogether).  So, maybe I should just take a step back and list Cliff's story notes out word for word as they appear in this section:
    Dry Spell is a story that is mentioned elsewhere -- the rains stop.  And as follows is an outline for how might write said story -- based upon what notes Cliff's left and wild speculation on my part for the remainder.

And there you have it.  The plot and the feel, if not the complete story.  It could stand to be fleshed out a little more.  But if you look back and  recall the memory of the yarn in a week or few days, you might find that it's even better than if it had been fully fleshed out.  For in the margins, the mind will create.  And as we all know, creation is a beautiful thing -- even more so, in the eyes of the beholder.


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