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Last semester, we asked for your short short stories, and lo and behold we received. A few Okay, okay--so the number of entries in our short short story contest may not have been as large as we anticipated. As the following tales prove, though, it's not the size that matters...
...then the Sixties began, and continued into the Seventies, and lo!--there was a new spirit at work in the land. And there were great black comedies like "Dr. Strangelove," and there was the early Woody Allen (this was when people guffawed at Woody rather than nodded thoughtfully). And there was "The Producers" and there were collaborations between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. And there was news from England in Richard Lester's Beatles movies and there was a group called Monty Python, of which the more said the better. And there was "Nashville...
...next day I returned to my computer to print my assignment. Lo and behold, the net connection was not working again blasted "call back later" recording. The assignment was due in an hour...
...landed a job on the Boston Bomb Squad and met a female violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and her little daughter. He loves her, so he decides to get out of the Bomb Squad. The night of the wedding, Garrity kills another member of the bomb squad, and lo and behold, Dove is back on the case. Garrity nukes a couple more squad members, Dove saves a couple, and then Dove hunts Garrity down and blows...
...high lamas acting as interim regents. Finally, a regent named Tai Situ had a brainstorm. For 13 years, he had worn a prayer amulet given to him by the late leader, which he had never opened. Now, he says, "it suddenly struck me, the message could be here!" And lo, it was; and conveniently specific too: the child would be found "to the north in the east of a land of snow ((Tibet))/ A country where divine thunder spontaneously blazes ((wordplay indicating a town))/ In a beautiful nomad's place with the sign of a cow./ The method ((father...