To whom it may concern

The Riding Mower Dads hovered at the very edge of their lush green lawns, the air around them filling up with the grumble of an idling engine and the think fug of petrol fumes. Their eyes were hidden beneath the brim of their identical white bucket hats, but their mouths were set in a thin, tight line.

In the centre of the road, far from whirring blades and the well-aimed kicks of passing legs, the dogs sat. Tongues lolling, teeth exposed in a mocking canine grin. The Riding Mower Dads knew what came next. The dogs knew too.

All waited.

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Ongoing Verse: CAT

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Sprite, who as near as the boys could tell was some sort of maple-syrup based Hellhound that had come to them from a neighbouring dimension where everything was Canadian, wiggled four stubby limbs loose from the flowing darkness of his body, followed by a soft, tufted tail and a bright pink tongue. He cocked two of his heads to the left and gave a short interrogatory bark.

"Hey buddy," said Simon. "I brought a friend for you to play with."

He picked up the gloppy Cerberus and, before Marshall could stop him, deposited Sprite on the table beside the ecoplasm.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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In the vast expanse of human experience, there most likely existed several things better-tasting than reheated slices of yesterday's pizza. Certainly there existed things with more nutritional value, some of which sat even now in the very same refrigerator that held a rapidly diminishing quantity of Mister Zip's Saturday Night Special Stuffed Crust.

Still, in this moment Syndi was unable to name a single one of them. The night was over, dawn was just peeking over the humped and turreted back of City Hall, and they had all survived. The microwave beeped, and the Ladies, tired but victorious, drew closer.


Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History

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Eerie, Indiana/Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street

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