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The ineffable, unnamable God of Hosts stood with a burly, bearded personage who held a bar towel draped over one arm, a symbol of his trade. The golem toyed nervously with an ear.

"My people should quake at My unutterable Name, not fall on their tukhes," God sighed. The ear came off. "Bim... this is not about you. Try to stay on topic."

McMuckle Makes a Minyan

The cat laid his prey at Val's feet, sat and watched her, his wide, deep, secret eyes a pathway open just this once, and only for her, inviting her to join him in a different place if she knew the language.

"Thank you, I mean, really thank you!" Val felt foolish as she noticed she was crying. "I have never, ever been given such a splendid gift."

Tomcat

The woman at the far end of the kaleidoscope had not been there last week, of this Simon was sure. She was naked or near enough, thinly dressed in a diaphanous veil. "Holy shit!" Simon Alexander breathed on the lens and gave it a wipe with his sleeve.

"I see that I have your attention..." said the woman, "...finally."

Scope Virgin

"See that, Franklin?" said Eleanor Roosevelt. "That’s O’Brien." Franklin observed a line of stars on the eastern horizon. There were four.

"Oops, sorry." Eleanor nodded at her new constellation, O’Brien, and the fourth star blinked out.

Daphne Longhandle's Last Flight

"My sister, is she dead? Go and give her a poke, would you?"

The great white presence that was the Lady Mother of the Long Walkers indicated the row of captive queens on their dais beneath her, deferentially lower.

Song of the Rice Barge Coolie

Flyin' Ed rode the rainbow, that's how he described it to the wide-eyed kids at the Elementary when he used to come to do his show and tell.

"We all said someday he'd break his fool neck. And one day he did," said Pilly Hennicott. Pillsbury Hennicott, known as Pilly, was the chairman of the school board.

Platterland