In this Issue:
Affair
The storm was so strong it brought down the oak tree in my garden. Amongst its wreckage I found a bedraggled youth, who told me he had been living in the tree. Now he had nowhere to go. Read more...
To be the King's Man you must subject yourself to a series of four tests. Each test measures your loyalty to the King. All possessing, revered to the utmost, the King will not tolerate dissidence. Selflessly, sacrificially, you must give yourself to the King. To be the King's Man requires perfect fidelity and the will to sustain it. Read more...
Blabbermouth Vicki caught me talking to the turtle tank in the break room. Now everybody knows and is making a big deal out of my days as an animal physiotherapist. We're all trying to save something here. Read more...
Larded with fractures, Dr. Ströffe entered the manse and immediately clutched his heart. It was more than a gee-whiz overture to the night. He fell to one knee and threw back his head, punctuating the roll of fat on his lower neck. His skull glistened in the light of a low-hanging chandelier. Read more...
We were running so late to the wedding, I had to turn around and drive home two hours before we arrived at the ceremony, just so we could make it home in time for work. This chronological finagling had its effect on the children. Read more...
They had moved the elephant into Pete's apartment, as it would turn out later, by accident. Someone had fat fingered the online form, the algorithm hadn't worked correctly, whatever, the cause was never established definitively; the effect however was the elephant, in Pete's apartment. The elephant came in a box, carted in by three men wearing gray uniforms and gray hats. They'd pried open the crate and there was the elephant. Read more...
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