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Blame It On the Rain
a humorous short story about assigning blame, and God, and how they are realted - or not.
"God awoke and rambled onto his porch. The rain soaked his driveway. I could make it a sunny day, God thought, but if I scheduled rain, I must have had a good reason for it..."

plural
a short story about the relationship between 2 very close people.
"...Morphey turned his head slowly, successfully confirming that it was indeed the sun that was casting the rays of light that now were scattered about the shag rug in his bedroom. Rising seemed particularly out of the question, so he settled for rolling over, wondering what time it was, remembering that he didn’t care, and gazing back at the spot on his bedside table where a clock was not..."

The Enemy Gap
This story takes place in 1989, just after the fall of communism, asking what the U.S. information agnecies would do in the future?
"...The United States has always had enemies. It needs enemies. The U.S. has survived because it has always known it was the best. This Superiority complex has been sustained by always keeping someone inferior, whether they really are or not. When we lost one enemy, there was always another to take its place. The U.S. now has a Respect surplus..."

The Three Little Communist Pigs.
A retelling of the story of the three little pigs, from a cold war capitalist point of view.
"Many times when the liberal media tells of the Wolf and Three Pigs, they are unfairly biased towards the pigs. In fact these pigs are simply heathen Godless communists who seek to undermine the wolf’s way of life. What follows is the objective view of what happened in the aforementioned incident..."