The story starts with little King Wistful, the eight-year-old king of the Cheerful Isles, or as he renamed them, the Monotonous Isles.

The Mafia has a bad reputation, but much of that’s undeserved. As with everything in life, there are good, bad and ugly parts – the rise of global terrorism gives the Mafia a chance to show its good side.

What happened next was captured on video by a CNN reporter: a crowd of Trump supporters converging on Southall, punching, kicking, and choking him while chanting, “All lives matter.”

Many of the stories engaged closely with the lives of the touring musicians, but others placed their characters in fantastic alternative universes, such as Emilyray and Ignipes’ But Not the Song, a violent novel-length work that centers around a rebellion in a quasi-Victorian society, and Theopteryx’s The Adventures of Gerard: Boy Princess of the Ocean and Frank the Italian Gentleman’s Son Who Loves Him, an absurdist online graphic novel featuring members of My Chemical Romance and a menagerie of talking sea creatures.

“That boy,” bellowed Sir Wat, “was a shilpit, shiftless, shilly-shallying gomerel before he met up with Francis Crawford.  And now, by God – he still maybe makes up his mind three times in the time a normal man would do it once, but I’d sooner have him back of me in an argument or a fight than any finnicking ninny that stayed at home and got wed at St. Cuthbert’s before he stopped talking like the squeak of a tumbler!”

Startlingly enough, in the course of this novel the glamorous and dangerous protagonist has no lovers and no sex, delivers only one kiss, and ends up in the embrace of his mother.

A dog’s tail wags to communicate.  You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail.

Beyond sociopolitical and philosophical analysis, I’ll also be sharing my original music. The name I developed for my (solo) music project: “Audiographically Crafted Renditions of Neologically Yclept Magnificence, the Acronym of which is ACRONYM.”

The opening montage involves you, nude, in a non-sexual bromantic orgy.

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