"A Pirate's Life For Me" has been reverberating throughout the SOUP offices all month, and more than one writer has been serenaded with "Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!" as they enter the door. Inevitably, the iced tea and apple juice, provided by the editors in order to encourage proper decorum in lieu of their alcoholic counterparts, have had to be taste-tested on multiple occasions. Who knew there were so many charms and spells dedicated to lovely beverages?
But there is far more to the life of a pirate - not to mention charms - than just walking around with a bottle of rum, as our crew writers have so ably demonstrated. What are you waiting for? Climb aboard!
Are you ready for some football? Oops! Wrong theme, can you tell that a certain feline is more than ready for the next American football season to begin? *cough* Are you ready to explore and see if you can't find some treasures of your very own? Why not take a peek at an adventurous tale woven by Christopher Bones, relayed by our very own Nikita Grey in Scintillating Spellwork? After that close your eyes and listen to the sea before reading an original poem, The Corsairs of Umbar by Eowara of Rohan. Looking for something that would be familiar to our devoted SOUP readers like you? Revisit the artist Michael Godard and some of his watery creations over in Art Critiques.
Or perhaps some of you would like to see Lugh get some just desserts for his frequent pranking in the SOUP Offices? Mosey on over to Ranting and Raving to see what happened to him this month! On your way out the doors, take a gander at Narcissa Malfoy's attempts to help a pirate in trouble in our Need Advice? column.
After all the writing was done a flurry of ink-blotted parchment was neatly compiled to be sent to the printers by Wolf. You can bet your life that there was more than enough left to do in the SOUP offices before this issue could be put to bed. Kitten was given the unenviable job of distracting the two hoarding dragons in the office, while the Hobbits and Alanna dove under their desks to retrieve the pirate gold they had covertly stashed there. While that dangerous mission was underway, the rest of the writers were ordered to swab the decks as punishment for more than one puddle of sticky apple juice on the floor, where just about everything ended up stuck in a gluey mess. So, if you want to see if the editors ever managed to get the SOUP offices ship shape and Bristol Fashion, you'll just have to wait until next month and see!
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Don't forget to come back for the next issue of SOUP to learn if any of the writers - or editors, for that matter - had to walk the plank and what happened if they did!