Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Midways and Middling

The Sibu Brothers of Sarawak banded together with Liepaja Stepbrothers to force the Kista Brothers out of business, figuring they’d have the sole rights over shoes and cobbling and not have to bother with the filthy Swiss any further. They had a notion (as ideas and concepts were too complicated) to manufacture men’s loafers from magpie skin, using the eyes, which were green blue and orangey yellow, and feathers to make uncommonly beautiful wingtips. If this failed, as most notions are ideas that never quite make it to concepts, they would steal as many magpies as they could and hide them in a coop somewhere where no one, not even a magpie, could find them.

(...rotten swine heard her beaming with brim and rigor, holding, as she was, to the rake-side-hilt of a mortise and peddle. Not one to be caught in a kafuffle, maidenhead heady with midways and middling’s. The harridan’s sister assonated every word she spoke, a grammatical jiggery that created its own...).

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