post really, really, really short stories.

Li’lfish has a
star machine.

We make a tiny
nocturnal world
and sky under
the sheet and
blanket at bedtime.

The machine
plays ocean
surf and throws
stars onto the
sheet sky.

It’s night with
no moon on a
tropical isle
in our bed under
the covers.

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Wilbur assembled his
clockwork girlfriend
with great care; she
came in a box all the
way from China and
Switzerland.

After much tool-throwing
and colourful language,
Wilbur installed her
boiler/uterus and
started a fire in her
with perfect pieces of
Welsh Anthracite.

As pressure built up
Wilbur’s Pneumatic
Girlfriend raised her
head and smiled: steam
shot out of her ears
and she glowed like a
wood stove on a cold,
dark night shot through
with stars.

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Bird Fart was solemnly launched
by the 4th Expeditionary Collective
of Lemur Atmospheric Talent.

Its mouse skin envelop sported seams
that were cunningly stitched together with
copra fibre by tee-heeing lemur maidens.

Bird Fart had gas cells that were
filled with the belches and nebulous
miasma from the public lavatories of
Lemuria and boasted edible ballast
consisting of bananas, star fruit,
coconuts and United States Republican
Senators.

The senator ballast was saved for last
because it was so tough and stringy it
was hardly edible and was usually chucked
overboard with a hearty heave-ho! and
much laughter and back slapping.

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Decided he wanted to
wear a coronet on his
head.

His mother tried to
keep him in clothes
but all he wanted was
a nice, shiny brass
coronet.

Wilson would walk
bare-assed down to
the park his coronet
flashing in the sun
like a highly visible
but soundless Bach horn
concerto.

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All of a sudden I
am standing in a
market with a protein
drink in my hand and
everything seems normal
but it’s not: I’m in
a very foreign country;
they sell gas here but gas
is propane and petrol
is gas. Tea is dinner
and other meals too.

You talk funny said
the little girl.

I was explaining to her
littler brother that
my bike wasn’t broken;
it only has one fork.
I don’t believe he understood
a word of my style English.

I do talk funny I guess
I said with a smile. I like
most kids before they learn
how to emulate bigger kids
who emulate adults who
emulate what they think an
adult is.

Lots of big eyes watch
me solemnly like I’m a
rare animal at the zoo.

_{Which is sort of how it is here.}

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Commissioned a new
ship for the exploration
of the small pond that
was nearby the kingdom
of One Tree.

“I hereby name thee
Octopus Fart,” the
King proclaimed and
threw some nuts at the
log lying in the mud.

The lemurs jumped up
and down and hooted
which made them all
hot and tired; they
climbed back into
One Tree for a nap
and quickly forgot
about the boat and
pond exploration.

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_{Philbert regretted eating that can of baked beanz for lunch and then taking a date to the opera.}

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Li’lfish and I are
walking. She is in
her hiking/backcarrier
and we are talking
about flowering trees.

“Yellow,” I point at
a Golden Wattle.

“Gah,” she agrees
solemnly.

Beautiful grass parrots
and Rosellas fly
over head:

“Birds,” I point – she’s
fast; she spies them
quickly.

“Gah,” she says seriously.

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Disengaged its time/space shunt
drive, and after some insertion
manuvering, assumed an orbit around
the terrestrial-like world named
Irwin’s Folly.

The first load of scientists to
shuttle down were a group of
bravado-infused herpetologists
who were excited to observe the
flying snakes of the aerial jungle
balls which floated about the planet.

One of the herpetologists, Dr.
Arcus Azibo-Elgar of Jamaica,
peered out of his diaglaz window
at the aerial snakes writhing
and gliding and issuing green
vapour trails.

“No shit,” he said nodding;
his dreads gently moving like
sleeping sea snakes. “Snake fart, mon.”

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I made a cave
or tent under
the covers.

Li’lfish has
my bike light
and waves it
around.

We’re spelunkers
I explain and
point out some
calcite.

Li’lfish puts
the bike light
in her mouth.

She’s a little
carved pumpkin
in a flannel
grotto with glowing
cheeks.

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