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The Civil-verse was plagued with associated

  • The Civil-verse was plagued with associated tourists. They self ported through the Master Press like worms in a carcass. My job was to give them a reason to go home.
  • I'm Agent Archo with Civil-verse Port Authority. Returning Illegally ported tourists to their Protoverse is my job. "Eridian Floaters decending on methane fountains of Trithus"
  • I would sing as I strummed my lute and guided the shackled tourists to Transporter 61B. It was just before the Konsumitall holiday of 2674.01 when the great transporter disaster
  • ruined the package tourist business to Zerta )(, the subsequent rioting leading to Emperor U walking the streets accompanied by Terpsichorean camel and a whispering gnorge. My lute
  • Was producing something straight out of the Elizabethan era. The Emperor applauded and hired me as the court musician. Or one of them. It was a dream come true. My lute made me a
  • target in the court of the Monkey King but here my lute made me a Rock Star. I was invited to all the great salons but I couldn't attend any of them. I was chained by my vow to be
  • Monkey Courtesan for the whole of the Monkey King's court. It was actually a suite gig (get it?), but with my lute lessons unused, I gradually forgot how to play all the best licks
  • Until eventually I only knew how to play The Monkees by the similarly named band banned throughout the Monkey kingdom. I was to be peeled and eaten at dawn. That night in th prison
  • mess hall, a coupla nuts and me decided to split. What did we have to lose? We hid in garbage pails and were taken out at midnight. I was a free fruit at last. If only I hadn't hum
  • ped the leg of a Chinese sailor named Fun who knew me as the AWOL fruit (the nuts were rounded up not far from the trash); Fun took me back to the mess hall before chowtime ended.

5 Comments

  1. Jimbeau Oct 20 2019 @ 23:33

    Any time, Or anywhere Just look over your shoulder

  2. LordVacuity Oct 21 2019 @ 00:42

    Almost 6 and half years later...

  3. SlimWhitman Oct 22 2019 @ 03:01

    Worth the wait.

  4. Jimbeau Oct 22 2019 @ 19:02

    Any time Or anywhere Just look over your shoulder Guess who'll be standing there? Hey, hey, we're the Monkees And people say we monkey around

  5. SlimWhitman Nov 11 2019 @ 03:32

    ... and we do!

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