A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 16
December 16th Gary was still angry with Ludwig; he knew he wasn’t just a goat, but here he was again: locked up in the pen, eating grass. The fact that it was mid-December and there was still grass visible made Gary even more annoyed. On top of all that, he was a superhero and he […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 15
December 15th “I’m dreaming of a whiiiiiite Christmas…!” Gary was singing loudly in between his sniffing around the barn. He smelled something strange; maybe someone had put something nice and tasty in a parcel. There was no sign of where the smell was coming from, which made him realise that it must be left over […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 14
December 14th Ludwig was deflated; the door-to-door and various searches hadn’t given them a single clue. It was looking more and more likely that an outsider had stolen all the presents and run away with them. Anton sat with him at the kitchen table, trying to console the young man. “You know kids don’t need […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 13
December 13th The mayor and Ludwig were sitting at his kitchen table, clutching mugs of steaming coffee. “So now not only do we not have presents for the kids in the village who didn’t get any, we have no presents at all,” the mayor summed up, sadly. “I made a list of the children whose […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 12
December 12th The village policewoman, Meli, responded immediately to Ludwig’s call. There wasn’t much crime in the village in the Wienerwald, the forest to the west of Austria’s capital. Now, so soon before Christmas, the crime that had been committed was the most despicable of all. Someone had stolen all the childrens’ presents. A meeting […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 11
December 11th The plan was hatched and the two boys went on their way. They knew their mother would sleep soundly, though they had no idea what sleeping pills were. Michael and Manfred only had to wait until their father had also passed out from all the drink, as he did without fail every evening, […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 10
December 10th Gary sat outside the farm door, staring at the sky. He was so bored, waiting for the snow to come. There wasn’t really anything he could do to help Ludwig with the party preparations directly so he went inside and tried to convince the young farmer that he could act as his secretary […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 9
December 9th “I hate Christmas,” Manfred turned to his brother. “Me too,” the other kid nodded. “It’s just going to be worse this year, isn’t it?” “Probably, yes,” Michael looked at his hands. He had overheard his parents talking about the huge Christmas party in the village, about all the presents that were piled up […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 8
December 8th “But they’ll stare at me! And they have sticks and I’ll be prodded and poked like a… a…” “Biology experiment?” asked Ludwig. Gary nodded vigorously. “Exactly! They might discover my secret superhero identity and that will be the end of Captain Myotonic.” “Gary, they’re primary children, not private investigators. I promised Madeleine that […]
A Very Gary Christmas – Dec 7
December 7th The plans spread like wildfire in the village. Between conversations over fences, at the tiny supermarket’s cash register, at knitting clubs and at the bus stop, the adults in the village managed to get the news around without revealing their plans to the children. One after one, they arrived at Ludwig’s farm, bringing […]
