Red, White, and Maggie: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #2
By Kate Danley
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Nothing worse than getting ants at your picnic.... unless it is vampires. It's the 4th of July and the nation is celebrating the United States' independence. Except someone dressed like George Washington has figured out a way to turn the revelers into mindless drones. Looks like a job for Maggie and Killian.
A part of the Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special short stories. This stands independently from the main Magical Tracker series and can be read at any time and in any order.
Kate Danley
Kate Danley, an award-winning actress, playwright, and author, is a member of the Acme Comedy Improv and sketch troupes in Los Angeles. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and the Washington, DC/Baltimore area. Danley’s screenplay Fairy Blood won first place in the Breckenridge Festival of Film screenwriting competition in the action/adventure category. Her debut novel, The Woodcutter, was honored with the Garcia Award for the best fiction book of the year, was the first place fantasy book in the Reader Views Literary Awards, and the winner of the sci-fi/fantasy category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Kate currently lives in Burbank, California, and works by day as office manager for education and exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
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Red, White, and Maggie - Kate Danley
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This is a Maggie MacKay Holiday Special, which is a series of short stories that can be read at any time in any order.
Red, White, and Maggie
I pressed the probe into the charred, dark flesh. The heat radiated against my skin and a prickle of sweat bubbled on my lip.
MAGGIE! Are the steaks done?
I backed away from the BBQ and blinked the smoke out of my eyes. Not yet. You got that corn husked for the grill yet?
It was the 4th of July and my entire family was celebrating the season in some random park close to Mindy's house in Pasadena. There were wide expanses of grass for people to enjoy, some of it even still green and not completely browned out by the summer sun. There were little signs all over the place touting that the city used reclaimed water and not to drink from the sprinklers. Split wood fences separated the park from the parking lot, but were more decorative than useful. A mob of screaming kids were climbing through the railings and, for the lack of slides and swigs, turned it into playground equipment.
Balloons and tablecloths festooned the picnic sites in red, white, and blue. Someone had set up a volleyball net, but it was too darned hot. The party opted, instead, for sipping cerveza beneath the shade of a eucalyptus tree. There were a few hearty souls like myself trying to grill on the park-provided metal grates, but at this point, I was thinking we should've headed out for a bucket of KFC and called it a day.
I have unwrapped all of the wiener dogs from their plastic casings!
announced Killian proudly.
Now, the elves might be a pretty people, and super smart about certain things, but there are some translation issues between humans and the hunky fairy folk. Killian is my business partner and co-owner of M&K Tracking. While this six-foot something, blond Adonis with pointy ears can stake a vampire with the best of them, cooking junk food ain't one of his skills, bless his fuzzy vegan heart.
I looked down at the plate he presented me. Killian, you didn't need to take off the casing from the hot dogs. I just needed you to remove the packaging.
He looked down at the pile of mutilated processed meat massed together next to a wad of sausage skins. It seemed like packaging that one would not care to ingest.
That's just a thing with hot dogs.
Is the word not 'wiener'? As mentioned in that human ode to this food by the culinary expert Oscar Meyer?
We try not to say 'wiener' in polite company, Killian.
He looked at me with confusion and I realized I didn't want to get it into it. Just trust me.
He sniffed the plate. So, humans eat this? On the fourth day of the month. Is it only this month or is it the fourth day of every moon cycle?
There's a few more times of the year when they are culturally appropriate,
I answered as I put the steaks on a plate and tried to indicate he should put them on the table instead of standing next to the BBQ asking me questions about processed meat.
He looked down at the perfectly grilled beef and then over at the pink mush. His head tilted before he very profoundly asked, Why?
One of life's mysteries.
I gave him a shove