After many years I’m finally coming out of the imagination into reality! Let me introduce myself. My name is Cochran Cornell. People refer to me as cantankerous, but I cannot understand why. I’m not difficult or irritating! How can I be considered mean-spirited? Why, I’m most often like Grover who lives on Sesame Street---lovable, sweet, kind! Yet I’ve heard rumors through the years that I have a difficult and contrary disposition, unwilling to cooperate in any reasonable situation! How dare they talk about me this way?!??! Cantankerous, my eye! I’m the creation of Carolyn, you might know. She recognizes the beauty of my golden-bronze color, my iridescent wings, even though I’m so hated by most humankind that they are energized by trying to splat on their walls! Oh, but I’m too swift for them! You see, I’m a cockroach, one of the German kind. Oh, quit cringing! Beauty like mine can be seen nowhere else in the animal kingdom. I’m not like those ugly black creatures I disenfranchise as my cousins. Ugh! Enough, enough. Carolyn is gracious enough to introduce me to the public for the first time on the Beanery Writer’s Group blog. I trust you know about this blog, as you are reading it about now. If you must know, Carolyn is sooo eccentric. She tries to be a writer, but writers must be storytellers. I’m a better storyteller. And oh, do I have stories to tell! I’ll begin this week, but you must understand something about me. You writers, you take the easy road, you use that newfangled electronic gizmo. But I cannot record my stories like my role model Archie. You remember him, don't you? He wrote newspaper columns in the 1920s and 1930s, poetry style. He did it on an old fashioned typewriter. My creator types on a computer keyboard that is so much improved over the typewriter keyboard. I’m just not patient enough. And I’m electronically challenged. Oh yes, I much prefer recording my stories using an old-fashioned porcupine quill ink pen dipped in an inkwell. So watch for my upcoming story---I’ll tell you all about my role model mentioned above. Let his identity remain a mystery until revealed in his story! Doodleoot for now. Cochran. READ COCHRAN'S STORIES in the Beanery Online Literary Magazine (www.ProBlogs.com/beanerywriters) in the category Cochran's Writings. | 
