PRETTY & NICE

Ok.  Our story starts somewhere along the shores of the Nile in lovely, elegant Egypt, circa 5000 BC. The Alligators are water-sprawling, the Pelicans are river-dance dancing, the Toads are wet, the Toads are wild, etc. The landscape, you could say, is (more…)

The Totally Crazy Story of Magda Magdason.        by J Mendicino.

It all starts in the mid 19th cen’tree.  Queen Magpie Dagpie of Modern Fluaesia dreamt a dream of her past lives.  The dream was approximately 11 hours long, and did in fact detail every last twist and turn of all of the Queen’s past incarnations – including those of one Magda Magdason, 11 Drury Lane, Westminster, born 1701, died 1724, red hair, of Scottish descent, 11 brothers and sisters, penchant for outdoor activities (ie- gardening, tree climbing, hill climbing, aerobic butter churning), buxom, lovely, single.  The Queen awoke (more…)

Part Two.

Beatrice had left the oven on again.  This was not shocking.  Bartleby Bumpersnorn turned it off.   Beatrice went out for a walk leaving her new born baby drowning in the bathtub.   Bartleby Bumpersnorn didn’t bat an eye – though he had no need as he was a fully automated program on titanium legs.   He pulled the baby from the water, performed mouth to mouth, cpr, and a gave the infant it’s first haircut, saving the small locks, of course, to be scrapbooked at a later time.   (more…)

Excluding only shellfish, banana fish, seaweeds, large fish (especially sharks), the myth of mermaids/men, anemone, the ancient (almost seemingly arcane) coelacanth, coral reefs (the danger of which should be blatantly obvious to anyone), and all manor of pure underwater darkness, Mantosori loved sea life.  Yeah, he adored it.  That is to say, more acutely, he loved scuba diving in the clear, safe, phosphorescent shining blue water in the vicinity of his favorite resort in Cancun.  To come further clean, (more…)