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"Human beings are just like all the rest of us animals - like rats, dogs or ants - but with the potential to be intelligent. Too bad most don't meet their potential."
Every year (almost) for nearly two decades I have made a "discipline" to concoct yet another twisted allegory on the humanimal condition. Produced as hand-made flip-books of about 15 pages, give or take, these stories, hand-illustrated, present a withering non-human perspective of things that shed some light (or darkness) on our human obsessions, foibles and predicaments. Hence each is an "After-Dinner Allegory for Adults". They would be written some time during my Christmas break, between Christmas and a couple of weeks after New Year's, usually in one inspired sitting. These I would then send as a kind of post-Christmas season antidote to friends and family and anyone unfortunate enough to have sent us a Christmas card. OK, so here it is, the misanthropic side of my nature, hanging all out there for all to gawk at...
Oh, by the way, lest you think I do this all out of a spiritual need to self-flagellate and purify my soul of anti-social demons, if you want one of these stories, you need to send me $5 (family and friends excepted). These stories don't grow on trees. Although I have done these Allegories for so many years, I have finally put them up on the web site to celebrate the fact that I have now hit my target 13 stories, and am ready to publish the complete set of an unlucky number of a Baker's Dozen. If anyone knows a publisher who might be interested, please let me (or the publisher) know. They will only cost more once they're published. Interested? Email me.
Read a synopsis and a teaser for each Allegory (click on any image below for a pop-up window)
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