It's not as if we weren't warned.

And in my experience, a lot of stories don’t work because the author has spent 3000 words of a 5000 word story on backfill, which could have been suggested in a few sentences and was all we really needed of that information. They’ve kept the story from launching instead of propelling us into it.

Yep. But also with a short story, you really need to imply rather than show everything.

Tom, I vaguely remember saying that. I do think it’s important not to tell the reader everything about your world. Leave them some room to inhabit the story with your characters.

Congratulations!!

What a concept,,,

Yup. Repugs are shitting themselaves that we’ll see for ourselves how utterly repulsive he is…and has always been.

Great harmonies as well.

Irony or cluelessness?

Assuming this means referencing their work and not recommending the author her-or himself personally… R.A. Lafferty.

And used at least once in every SW film, I believe.

I was a researcher on a Discover Channel documentary back in the ‘90s on “ the curse of the pharaohs”, which concluded that the so-called curse was in fact exposure to aspergillis niger, mostly by Englishmen who had compromised immune systems and had been sent to Egypt for the climate.

Sheer genius.