SHORT STORIES (4) 10/12/04

An ex-patriot by the name of "Vestibule" is speaking in public. It is not going well. Five people are picking their scabs, seven are becoming re-addicted to drugs and one person is holding up a fish tank.

Someone is sending hate mail to the guy who invented "The Grab Bag". Neither of them knows what to do.

Pron VS. Tron, the argument is that bones are more valuable than bones.

A forty five year old prison guard invents a new facial expression. Every inmate he tries it on begins to work on some kind of sewing project.

Little girl quits school when she finds a small metal case, shaped and painted like an eyeball. But it wasn't the eyeball case that effected her so much.

Two fugitives cut off each others hands to remove the cuffs that held them together, because neither could stand the sound of grinding metal. Even though they only had to cut off one hand for them both to be free, they couldn't agree on who it should be. After deciding not to play paper rock scissors by playing paper rock scissors, they agreed they should cut off each others hands at the same time. After they were free they stuck spray nozzles in their wrist stumps and had a funny blood fight.

The jelly fish that had evolved, found its favorite foods to be crackers and smoke.

There is a lobster that can camouflage its self as a stone sandwich. The sandwich part was just for fun and not survival.

Old man hires rebellious goose to protect his genitals. Because of the nature of the job, the two become romantically involved. Neither speaks of it among friends.