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"Mother, when are our cousins expected to

  • "Mother, when are our cousins expected to arrive?"
  • The cousins will "arrive" on the winter equinox.
  • "You mean winter solstice.", Doctor Huffley sent a tired look at Jim. "Huh? Oh, yes, of course." A dazed man he was. "Are these cousins...", Huffley lowered his glasses. "hostile?"
  • Jim shrugged half-heartedly and replied, "Family can be your worst friends or your best enemies... like shortest day and the longest night of the year, they make their mark...."
  • "Sometimes with a switch." Elroy completed without a speck of good nature. He spat a thick brown glob of tobacco at a nearby copper pot, missing it entirely, and obviously not for
  • -tunate enough to be able to afford another glob of tobacco. Elroy grimaced as his nicotine cravings worsened, revealing his brown teeth in his reflection in the drug store window.
  • Elroy didn't know that advertising executives had paid a Professor Loompanics to study drug store interactions between patients & their shop windows. In the window, he looked bad.
  • Some customers saw Prof. Loompanics's findings and mocked Elroy. The wind of the fist, the sting of the blow, all a testament to his transgression against humankind. Ethics was on
  • the fall he he thought. With frustration in his eyes he shouted to the skies above, "NO." Ethics must never fail or we were wrong all along. We cant just
  • give up. “Why not?” rumbled a voice in the sky, “Ethics, shmethics,” it said. The voice pissed him off, but a lightning bolt struck him dead. “Turns out you WERE wrong all along."
Started
2014-08-08 13:37:45
Finished
2021-01-13 19:27:26

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