Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Path: jfwhome!news.ultranet.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.gmi.edu!msunews!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!psgrain!agora!agora.rdrop.com!ascot From: ascot@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Scott) Subject: Backstage at the Unicorn Rodeo (100 words) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: news@agora.rdrop.com (David Greenman) Nntp-Posting-Host: agora.rdrop.com Organization: RainDrop Laboratories Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 06:03:16 GMT Summary: Yes, another 100-word story. Good title, though. Lines: 28 BACKSTAGE AT THE UNICORN RODEO (100 words) Come in, son. Take a seat. That one's fine. Your scores are very impressive. Not everyone has what it takes to be a Unicorn Rodeo clown. Acrobatics, good. Tumbling and dodging, fine. Excellent pratfalls. You did seem a little too nervous, though. You DO know they can't touch you? Unless... Oh. You realize our insurance won't let us let you go out there... like that? No, I'm sorry, I can't just take your word for it now. Do you want the job? All right, then. The 'corns don't care how it's done. Bend over, boy. It's for your own good. -- Alan P. Scott (ascot@agora.rdrop.com) "We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then." --Orson Scott Card, _Xenocide_