“This is not about you!” Red Fox terrorized the models. “It’s not even about me. It’s about the clothes, nothing but the clothes. You continue nattering about your makeup and I have you all wear masks.”
Spring
Author: Uncle Artie
You've heard of the Old Man and the Sea? Or maybe the Chicken of the Sea? The Old Chicken? Forget that, I'm the other Old Man, the Old Man of the Tech. A Technology Fabulist, a known teller of tales, the Homer of the Post Atomic Age; that would be the Information Age. Is anyone keeping up with this?
The mission comes first.
Aye-Aye sat down at the outdoor table of the café he reconnoitered earlier and signaled the waiter to come over. He carefully lay the violin case on the table with the fine arts magazine he had bought for cover and ordered café au lait with beignets, “and take your time. I am in no rush.”
What Does a Bear Do?
Brown Bear showed his and his wife’s tickets to the usher. “Are these near the aisle? I may have to get up on occasion to, you know, I don’t want to interrupt the poets too badly. Or should I wait for the finger snapping?”
Weather Prediction
“The rain has started, of course.” Ermine observed. He looked at the opposing line across the soft earth that was rapidly and seemingly eager to soak up the falling water and turn it into something else other than stable ground. “Merde.”
Concede
“Look, I’ll make you a deal.” Blue Whale said to the Fox working concessions. “If you stop asking me if that’s enough butter on my popcorn and just let the machine run out, I won’t have to keep telling you to add more.”
Model Behavior
Miller’s Grizzled Langur paused to speak with the photographer. “Now look, darling, I’m sure you’re absolutely super at what you do, but I assure you, listen to me now, I know exactly what needs to be done. So don’t speak. Don’t direct. And keep the camera focused right here. Do you understand? Of course you do. Thank you, darling.”
Semaphore are Us
“So that’s the way of it then?” Boxer read the deciphered message with savage dismay. To the signaler, “Send this back. Belay that crap, we’re for the high seas and will not return to port. With all sincerity, etcetera, etcetera.”
