There's Always a Way...Sometimes

09/28/21 • 32 min

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“There’s Always a Way...Sometimes,” Episode 8

Nicki and Gneeecey have inadvertently traveled to Planet HyenaZitania, ruled by Gneeecey’s evil, more sophisticated double, Ebegneeezer Gesundheit Eeeceygnay. The two find themselves imprisoned in a cold cell in a medieval stone tower. Chanting zombies mill about in the courtyard below, chomping greedily on orange and grape flavored gelatin brains.

Petrified and shivering, Nicki and Gneeecey realize that they’ll end up down there with the walking dead if they don’t come up, by daybreak, with answers to Ebegneeezer’s nonsensical questions.

The planet’s two suns set, and Nicki and Gneeecey, consumed with worry, can’t sleep. Nicki swears that she sees a red electronic light blink overhead but questions how this could be possible in such a primitive structure. She and Gneeecey take turns confessing deep, dark secrets to each other.

After Nicki recalls that adventure, she’s more than alarmed that she can’t remember how she and Gneeecey got out of the whole jam. Nicki and Gneeecey arrive at their therapy appointment with veggie meatball shop owner and licensed therapist Ingabore Scriblig, AKA, Grandma. Nicki needs to discuss the memory problems that plague her. Gneeecey interrupts her immediately and goes on to hog the session, claiming that he’s more important than Nicki. He brags that he’s the one “wit’ all the stinkin’ issues, not her!” He complains to Grandma about nightmares caused by watching monster movies before bedtime. Afterward, he’s too scared to get out of bed when he needs to use the bathroom. The results, he says, are not good. When Grandma advises Gneeecey that he’s watching too many scary movies, he suddenly has to leave.

Vicki, Nicki, Frank, Gneeecey, and Grandma want to thank Marysol Cerdeira Rodriguez, Sandi Solá, Sal Solá, Marcellina Ramirez, and Rick “El Molestoso” Rivera for being generous supporting members via BuyMeACoffee.com! We appreciate their sponsorship more than words can say!

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Vicki's related comedy/fantasy/sci-fi books, You Can't Unscramble the Omlet and The Getaway That Got Away are available at Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/Vicki-Sola/e/B07J29RVMQ (Amazon Author Page, check out our Gneeecey/Nicki e-books and paperbacks!)
It's a one-woman show! Vicki does all the writing, character voices, and audio production!

Vicki here, I'd love to hear from you! Click here to send me a message!

“There’s Always a Way...Sometimes,” Episode 8

Petrified and shivering, Nicki and Gneeecey realize that they’ll end up down there with the walking dead if they don’t come up, by daybreak, with answers to Ebegneeezer’s nonsensical questions.

https://www.amazon.com/Vicki-Sola/e/B07J29RVMQ (Amazon Author Page, check out our Gneeecey/Nicki e-books and paperbacks!)

https://www.nfreads.com/interview-with-author-vicki-sola/ (Interview with Vicki Solá)

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Purple Daze

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“Purple Daze,” Episode 7

Nicki struggles to cash her first actual WGAS Network paycheck. Prior to this day, her earnings were so small, that Gneeecey paid her literally from out of his T-shirt pocket every two weeks, flinging a few singles and coins in her face. Today, she’s caught up with some of the “debts” he said she’d owed him, and he announces, with great fanfare, that she’s getting her first real check.

It’s Blirg, a season where time runs backward due to Perswayssick County dimension’s annual axial reversal. There’s a constant high-pitched primordial hum and it never gets dark. Day and night, a fluorescent purple glow permeates even solid structures.

Nicki uses her lunch half-hour to drive down Stummix Bank, located in Perswayssick County’s Stummix District, a confusing tangle of one-way similarly named streets. Her '75 Splodge is snorting, backfiring, and overheating, and she becomes hopelessly lost. Having left work at 12 noon, she knows she’ll never get back to the office a half-hour earlier, by 11:30 a.m.

She finally finds the financial institution and collects her meager monies. The skies break open and it begins to pour. As she slogs back to her car, an evil alien Markman motorcycle cop is planting a $200 parking ticket on her windshield.

“Have a nice day,” he says.

Later, Nicki takes Gneeecey to his therapy session with veggie meatball shop owner and licensed therapist Ingabore Scriblig, AKA, Grandma. They discuss Gneeecey’s perpetual tardiness. Gneeecey advises Grandma that her advice to plan ahead the night before and set his alarm clock fifteen minutes earlier on work mornings is “lousy” and “stooopid” because then he can’t sleep in.

Vicki, Nicki, Frank, Gneeecey, Cleve, and Grandma want to thank Marysol Cerdeira Rodriguez, Sandi Solá, Sal Solá, Marcellina Ramirez, and Rick “El Molestoso” Rivera for being generous supporting members via BuyMeACoffee.com! We appreciate their sponsorship more than words can say!

https://www.amazon.com/Vicki-Sola/e/B07J29RVMQ (Amazon Author Page, check out our Gneeecey/Nicki e-books and paperbacks!)

https://www.nfreads.com/interview-with-author-vicki-sola/ (Interview with Vicki Solá)

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Catchin' Up Wit' My Tail

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“Catchin’ Up Wit’ My Tail," Episode 9

GAS Broadcast Network’s micro-managing owner (also a doctor and Perswayssick County’s director), Diroctor Gneeecey, interviews Nicki Rodriguez’s alter ego, author Vicki Solá on his weekly WGAS-TV public affairs program, “Catchin’ Up Wit’ My Tail.”

Solá has authored two comedic Sci-Fi fantasies, You Can’t Unscramble the Omelet and The Getaway That Got Away, detailing Nicki’s adventures in Gneeecey’s wacky dimension. Solá’s stories do not offer a flattering portrayal of greedy, zany canine-humanoid Gneeecey. Throughout the interview, the walking, talking Jack Russell-lookalike makes little attempt to hide his disdain.

Meanwhile, show producer Autumn Raines supplies commentary, as needed, for this radio adaptation of Gneeecey’s television show.

Things go from bad to worse when Gneeecey’s therapist Ingabore Scriblig, AKA, “Grandma,” walks onto the set, unaware that producer Raines has accidentally double-booked guests for the broadcast. Gneeecey is not happy. Raines panics. Gneeecey and Grandma have a falling-out, on air.

Vicki, Nicki, Grandma, and even Gneeecey want to thank Marysol Cerdeira Rodriguez, Sandi Solá, Sal Solá, Marcellina Ramirez, and Rick “El Molestoso” Rivera for being generous supporting members via BuyMeACoffee.com! We appreciate their sponsorship more than words can say!

https://www.amazon.com/Vicki-Sola/e/B07J29RVMQ (Amazon Author Page, check out our Gneeecey/Nicki e-books and paperbacks!)

https://www.nfreads.com/interview-with-author-vicki-sola/ (Interview with Vicki Solá)

https://perswayssickradio.buzzsprout.com (right here, our Buzzsprout website w/episodes & transcripts!)
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