Poolside Pandemonium
Most of my stories are about the undoing of arrogant women - particularly my characters Danielle Parnell and Katherine Wray (see the Humor and Satire section for some examples). That said, I've also penned some shorter tales of about the undoing of arrogant men. They've come about due to the express request of the actual Mrs. Katherine Wray (who is one of the women who knows the real Danielle and who has read and enjoyed the stories of her downfall).
Katherine thought it would serve me right to endure some of the same humiliation that I've foisted upon her and Danielle and thought it all the better for me to write the very stories in which I come undone. Unlike the Danielle stories these are somewhat less developed and quite brief. That said, below is a further developed version of one I sent to her a few years back (that I typed out while poolside in Las Vegas). At her request they are written from my point of view rather than that of a narrator.
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I'm sitting poolside at the Aria Sky Suites in Vegas thinking of what a great place this would be for me to endure a very well-deserved comeuppance.
I just finished an exhausting workout during which of course I flaunted my tan, taut body simultaneously bringing the women in the resort's high-end gym to a lather while making any other man feel inadequate in my presence. I took particular delight in asserting my physical dominance over these two pathetic, super nerds who seemed unable to peel their eyes off me at the gym. One of them was so thin and pasty he resembled an inmate on a starvation diet and the other, a complete fatty, appeared to have never missed a meal and then some. Unable to get out of their own collective way, these losers were monopolizing the gym's only bench press. While my instinct was to pants the fat one, I decided instead to give them both a helpful fitness tip so I could use the bench myself to brighten the day of the gorgeous hotties watching my put myself through my paces.
"I have an idea, fellas," I joked, doing my best to sound sincere while first addressing the skinny bag of bones, "why don't
you
take yourself to the all you can eat buffet while your fat friend there gets his ass on a treadmill. It's time for a
real