Smoke and Mirrors
one year after quitting cigarettes I can see the future (if I squint)
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Plato's Conclave
The world learned a new Pope had been elected seconds after a seagull regurgitated part of a Vatican street rat for its chick, white smoke curling through the scene like the mist that conceals the organic horror of Skull Island. Before the elder gull vomited the mangled corpse of rattus
The Funny Thing About a Wall
How gauche to be living in a small rural town with a dark secret. Boring, done before. And just as I was about to retire (to France). The town is all a-flutter because somebody has gone to great expense to print an eight page, full colour 'community newsletter'
Visa La France
I have no idea what I am doing
Ask Yacht What Your Country Can Do For You
the mendicant class is up, not down