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When the Austro-Hungarian Empire decided

  • When the Austro-Hungarian Empire decided that it would mark its territorial border in the middle of a tavern on 24th Street, Little Jimmy knew things were about to get messy.

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  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand ran into the bar hotly pursued by the wild-eyed Princip. A shot rang out, the Arhduke collapsed. Jimmy chased the Bosnian Serb down 24th Street but he disa

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  • abled Jimmy's legs his nerve-rioter. Jimmy collapsed into the tubers. The Bosnian Serb haloed into a crackle line and disappeared. World War 99 had started, just like WW 98.

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  • "99 world wars of tale on the wall, 99 world wars of tale; if one of those world wars should happen to end, then 98 world wars of tale on the wall," sung my friend.

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  • It would be our last evening in The Grout and Char before the recently spotted megaplanet "Blammo" smashed into Earth. Obviously humans had been better at war than astronomy up to

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  • this point in history. Ah, but nothing could be done about that now. My comrades & I downed another round as we watched the planet Blammo get closer. We were doomed, but then I

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  • remembered the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator that the small green being in the Trojan tutu had given me. "Do you think this would help destroy planet Blammo?" I said,

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  • "Could be. Give it the ole college try." Following the misfire, I found myself drifting atop an asteroid, a fragment of the home planet I had just destroyed. The Martian had failed

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  • at the box office and I had been powerless to stem the tide of consequences. It's scary how closely life can imitate art sometimes. Vectoring off the chunk of planet for one final

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  • journey to find space rocks popping candy. I contemplated the vastness of space and time. Art and stories are limitless but yet I felt subjected to endless sequels.

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1 Comments

  1. SlimWhitman Nov 22 2015 @ 01:54

    Oh how postscient your writing is inatick!

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