Meeting #214 of ToastMonsters

It was a dark and scary night. They always are. But not for us, of course. We are what makes it dark and scary. But tonight was meeting night so no nightmares, no thumps in the night, no missing persons reports for the next morning. Tonight is our night to socialize, to find out what's been going on in the world of our peers. Plus, there are always free doughnuts. 

Next up to the podium was Jim, our asthmatic werewolf. Nothing brings down the festivities of our meetings more than Jim. Just when things start to get exciting, we really get our blood lust going kind of thing, we all need to 'bring it down a little bit' cuz Jim is wheezing too hard, like an overly optimistic vacuum cleaner and an unfortunate mud puddle.

We all like to hunt: the vampires, the other wolf-men, the goblins and the Boogieman. Frankenstein could care less, but his size makes for an ideal bouncer when Mr. Hyde loses it during the meetings, as he so regularly does.

True, Jim has an unique problem, but then again, we all do. We get very few dinner invitations and we can never blend in at live sporting events, except during the playoffs. However, Jim is very much in danger of losing that edge we all need. After all, once you found it's possible to outrun a wolf-man simply by picking up the pace, all bets are off with the rest of us.

Perhaps one day people will find out the Boogieman is just really shy and will try to get it to 'open up; or that all the vampires really want is steady employment.

So Jim comes to our meetings, though we don't like it. He brings his puffer along and tries to drown our excitement in a fine mist. Tonight it's not going to work though. We've all decided we're going to kill him.

It's going to be an easy chase.