Behind an LJ cut, due to length.

Te got a job working as a cashier at a budget-price retail store.  She hated it.  The reason she hated it was because she felt that through hard work she had finally learned to love mankind, and the customers proved her wrong.  Suddenly mankind, as represented through those customers, was grotesque, ignorant, and ( Read more... )

He asked, “How would you like to play a game?”

“Sure, I’m down for that.”

“Do you like pool?”

“Sure.  Not much good at it though.”

“That’s irrelevant. Come along.”

He led me into a room with a pool table.

“This is not an ordinary pool table,” he explained, “This is a wizard’s pool table.”

“What makes it a wizard’s pool table?”

“It’s ( Read more... )