Maddles McGuigan

"Is turd home?" Maddles McGuigan stared at the dirty faced boy through the screen door. "Turd?" Her face was contrived befuddlement. "Oh you mean William. I'll get him." Maddles quickly vanished to collect her son. "No I mean Turd" he shouted though the screen. She could hear the giggles from the rag-tag lot that was standing behind him.

She walked down the hall and passed William's room. She did not notice that her son was playing alone. She did not know that earlier Paddles McGuigan had taken him to a matinee screening of King Kong. She did not know that William's teddy bear was now a giant gorilla killing dinosaurs on skull island. What she did know was there were soggy clothes in the wash tub that needed to come out.

Dirty faced Jimmy Colman was quick but Maddles was quicker. She blasted through the screen with with a steady grace. The wash tub she was carrying was filled with ice water. By hitting the aluminum cross frame of the screen door with her left elbow and then spinning around in a barrel roll, she increased her velocity. Two of three hinges broke off the door. Young Jimmy had time to step back and turn his head a bit, but that was all. The impact from the ice water was significant as there was considerable rage in the woman's catapult. His ass wound up in the icy mud at the foot of the porch. It was worse than a punch from his own Dad. He looked behind and saw that his friends were already high-tailing it out of there. Turning back around he saw Maddles McGuigan screaming at them as they ran, only he was deaf to it all because of the ice water in his ears.