I am not a supervillan.

I am not even particularly evil.

I don’t have leagues of minions to do my bidding, nor an apocalyptic superweapon and a world domination plan. I don’t have a comely young sidekick who will fall for the master spy sent to stop me. (I do have HA, who is comely indeed and younger than I am, yet a bit more grown-up than a Bond girl sort of accomplice and unlikely to throw in with my nemesis.)

HOWEVER, by this definition from Merriam-Webster

screen shot of the Merriam-Webster definintion of "compound," 4 of 4, noun, ": a fenced or walled-in area containing a group of buildings and especially residences

I do have a compound. It’s fenced and gated, to keep Luna the Big Dog™ in and the pesky piggies out. It has multiple buildings, some of which could be used as residences (one certainly is)…

  • and it’s on a remote island!
  • and it’s on the side of a volcano!

It isn’t underground yet, but reportedly there’s a lava cave down in the gulch where perhaps, one day, I can locate the nerve center.

I can already relish the headlines:

Twoprops has been named a person-of-interest, but is believed to be residing at his island compound and is unavailable for comment.

—2p

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