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Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) issue #517

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Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) issue #517
Wearing your dress to the party.

Giant Squid: Ask the Giant Squid: The True Meaning of Xmas by the Giant Squid

Dear Anonymous Gift-Needer,

The lab this time of year is especially redolent with Xmas cheer. The days grow shorter and shorter until one fears that light shall never come again, that we will be relegated to a darkness unceasing, forever gripped in the toska of Seasonal Affective Disorder, hunkered low in our Xmas sweaters, drinking the bourbon-ed Xmas nogs, supping on the Xmas roasts of our Xmas dead. But in the face of this crushing gloom, this Sauron-like weight that hangs upon us, in the face of this we feel Cheer and Hope in what is doubtless a sociological miracle. . . .

Fiction: Toms River by Joseph Modugno

It is a fine autumn afternoon. Toms River is walking into the hospital. He is carrying flowers. Some are red, some are yellow, some are green, and some are blue. Overhead, a cloud is passing, and across the parking lot on a dirt strip there are some trees whose leaves are moving, but Toms does not stop to look at them. . . .

Poetry: Lighting In August by Luminator Thelms

One
Hard bright sharp sharp
Stroke.
Before you can think
Concussion hits . . .

Rant: Susie's Letter from Santa by Mark Twain

. . . But I must not see anybody and I must not speak to anybody but you. When the kitchen doorbell rings George must be blindfolded and sent to open the door. Then he must go back to the dining-room or the china closet and take the cook with him. You must tell George that he must walk on tiptoe and not speak—otherwise he will die someday. . . .