HIT PLANT

June 14, 2011

Rocco Banducci, grizzled hit plant now in federal custody, agrees to name names in exchange for plastic surgery and relocation as a Shasta daisy.

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THERE COMES A TIME

June 13, 2011

There comes a time for all of us when we must: 1. learn to bake cookies. 2. eat a piece of bad fish. 3. give thanks to the avocado man. 4. admit that we’re not that thrilled with marzipan. 5. consume an entire box of chocolates and rationalize it by eating a stalk of celery.

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PROMISING FIRST SENTENCE

June 2, 2011

Lord Young, the Pekinese typesetter, took careful aim at the gorilla, favored pet of his former mistress, Dame Agatha Christ-Owens-Jones, Ltd.

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PRIOR TO THE BEATING

May 29, 2011

Seconds later, the elephant discovered the loon’s hiding place and administered to him a severe beating about the head and shoulders with her trunk.

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AD

May 23, 2011

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JUNGLE ADVENTURE

May 22, 2011

Up to my waist in the swamp, I struggled to pull the boat through the damned glut of reeds, all the while cursing the leeches availing themselves of the opportunity to slime slither and attach, barnacle-like, to my nether limbs, which in their turn strained to advance by gaining freedom from the powerful sinking mud […]

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HOW IMMENSE WAS HIS EGO?

May 19, 2011

His ego was so immense that he had all the eucalyptus trees on his estate ripped out and replaced with mecalyptus trees. His ego was so immense that he had the village hermaphrodite exiled and replaced by a memaphrodite.

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DON’T ASK A LOON FOR DIRECTIONS

May 18, 2011

“More courtly than sagacious, the lemmings of Fon du Lac often distribute clan-themed blueberry muffins to indigent cormorants,” replied the loon when asked if he knew the way to the train station.

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ON CHOOSING A FORT

May 17, 2011

When choosing a fort, three things must be kept in mind: 1. location – You wouldn’t want your fort to be in the middle of a street, for example, nor would you want it built horizontally out of the face of a cliff. Beneath a crag is good. 2. size – A fort the size […]

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A SELECTION OF LITERARY NEAR MISSES

May 12, 2011

The Great Gunsby The Young Man and the Sea David Tinfield The Maltese Hawk The Sound and the Furry  

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