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Writing

Wait a Mo

Finally, after all this time, we can call off the search. It’s over. The days of wondering, pondering, wandering, the sleepless nights, this tireless investigation has taken its toll. Who, in the end, would dare claim that it was not all worthwhile? Who could have known, from the very beginning, that after all this, what we were searching for was right under our noses? But it doesn’t matter. We have them now. We have reached our goal. We have found the missing moustaches.

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Writing

Intense

“I had tickets to see this circus, one of the old style circuses with wild animals and acrobats and fire-breathers.  Anyway, the day finally came just as a cyclone hit the city.  Rain was bucketing down from the sky and the tops of trees were sweeping the roads. And then, just as the whole wild menagerie drove into town it turned out the great hall had been double booked and the circus drew the short straw.  Can you imagine it?  All these giraffes and gymnasts, dwarves and dancing bears, parading down the street, ejected from their venue, wandering aimlessly.”

“That’s terrible.  What happened?”

“Well they ended up performing outside!  Lions and trapeze and all!”

“Wasn’t it dangerous in that weather?”

“A little.  It was in tents.”

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Writing

It’s not easy

Have you heard about the Diphy?

The religious sect that lives on a tall desolate death-trap of a mountain, where they balance for days on a single reed of bamboo, on one leg, and recite prayers in ancient Aramaic, translated into Klingon, and eat only one grain of rice a fortnight and are condemned by pain of death to vows of celibacy, silence and thinking only of the colour green?

Really, no?

You’ve never heard of the Diphy cult?

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