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Characters in the
Skeeter Kitefly Books
(presented more-or-less in the order of their appearance)
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Joyce Finian
Office Manager of the Elsew No-Nazz,
and
the Girl of Peyton's Dreams.
...As if to shield herself she wore a lot of citrussy perfume, as though she bathed in a tubful of fresh lemon juice—imagery that would provide Peyton diversion during more than one midnight hour to follow. As would Joyce’s blush. Excuse me: her BLUSH. Catching him examining her personal space, a flood of crimson welled up out of her pastel collar to sweep over the cygnet throat, the cheeks, the ears, the forehead: her face aflame with intense self-consciousness...
"Semibrokenoff"
Peyton's name for Joyce's unseen on-again
off-again fiancé.
“...I got the idea from—well, not rumors, but hints I picked up—that he’s kind of a Chekhovian character. Lurking in the background, not getting a lot accomplished. Excuse me if I’m mistaken.” She threw her head back, laughing out loud; no monotone tee-hee here. “You are so smart sometimes...”
Bonzo and the Muffin Man
Werner Krauss and John Amberson, two-thirds
of A.K.A. Enterprises and editors of the
Elsew No-Nazz.
...And get back together, the summer before last, with some of the old A.K.A. gang. Bonzo Krauss was nowhere to be found (nothing new there) and the Muffin Man had been born again as John Amberson, Jehovah’s Witness...
Sargent Poach
Host of KLOT-FM's Scrambled Segue Show.
...Sargent Poach kicked things off by suggesting the No-Nazz do a hardboiled exposé of his invisible parrot, Egbert Soufflé, and went on about how morose Egbert had been since his lover Omelette flew off “—to that big cage lined with newspapers in
the sky!...”
Young Shirley Jones
Participant with Joyce and Peyton in an
"air
conditioner à trois."
...Beside her was a handtruck, and loading the air conditioner onto it was an undeniably beautiful woman, wholesome-buttery like the young Shirley Jones of Oklahoma! or Carousel, but with a top-sergeant’s haircut...
Churl
Stuffed animal (fabric, not taxidermic)
given
to Skeeter as a Christmas gift.
“...I’d see Ewell achieving stylistic breakthroughs with Daring Dewey, only to throw it all away. Or watch it being taken away. And I’d wonder if he thought, ‘Such is Life.’” “As Per Usual,” Skeeter mumbled to Churl the Squirrel...
The Rev. Howie Beckett
Pamela Pillsbury-Beckett's husband and
co-host
of the Jesus Loves Me Show.
...The Rev. Howie Beckett, an Ed McMahonish jowlster, appeared just long enough to warm up the crowd and remind the faithful that this was a religious program. Then, heeeere’s PAMela!—who made a grand entrance down a backlit runway to great whoops and cheers from the Young Urban Upbeat congregation...
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The Wunderlichs
Martell Delamain
Friend of Lucky Pierre and Antoinette;
owner
of the Sambuca, a cushy old cabin cruiser.
...Vacationing in Quebec at the summer place of their crony Martell Delamain, a gentleman of means (and pinky rings, Havana cigars, and inscrutable sources of income) who was a friend to many families—including a capital-F one in Montreal...
St. Mintred the Supplicant
After whom a bay, a city, a branch
university,
and a medical center were all
named.
“...Youngest son of Ethelred the Unready. As a child he was exiled to the Abbey of St. Jumièges near Rouen, where he constantly implored visitors for money. Some say he died of a wasting fever; others that he got poisoned. At any rate he was canonized in a package deal with his older brother, Edward the Confessor; and for centuries his voice has been heard at Jumièges, saying ‘Pray give me thy purse, that I might render it unto Our Savior.’ You could call him the first televangelist—”
Ruby Hotstuff & Co.
The ultimate result of Skeeter and Peyton's
compact/relationship.
...In due course Ty Kuhn created an author named Fred who wrote a novel each night while in bed, till he used up his sheets and so cold turned his feet that he switched to short stories instead...
Others in Windohwa (and beyond)
include Jacques Derente I, founder of a
cutlery bonanza; Jacques IV ("Uncle Quarty") and Jacques V
("Uncle Sanka")
who run it today; APE's characters Skinny Billy the Kid
Chimney Sweep, King Stork in
Babyland, the Supreme Hee-Haw, and Vesta the
Vampire; Uncle Buddy-Buzz's roommate Gig, prop man Milt,
and friend Mr.
Nehru; Amos the headwaiter at Todd's Steakhouse; Peyton's starveling art
tutor; Peyton's
rival Valvert and desire-object Orange Girls; Coach Tucker
of the Cornwall Blue Streaks; a Carly Simon
lookalike with a Jeep Wagoneer;
Sadie Benison's old couple in Florence; Mr. Marr, tender of Marr's Bar on
the Milky Way; Tom Stockwood's secretary Miz Emmy; Peyton's grad school
girlfriend Cheryl; Dr. Primm
the gynecologist and Dr. Truelove the
obstetrician; RoBynne O'Ring's loftmates Danielle, Crispy J., and
Muchacha; Ima Gene, art director of Current magazine; and Old Mrs. 'Iggins (Skeeter's
role while cleaning
Peyton's condo apartment).
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