The last thing to go through international spy Effe Lajefe’s mind before he died was his favorite verse from the Bible: “You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of… more ›

The night before his 23rd birthday, Max resolved to listen to the complete works of Philip Glass. Granted, this amounted to listening to one work by Philip Glass over and over again, but Max was good about carrying through with… more ›

“You remember pussy-boat lady with glasses, no?” Lupita rolls over to ask Tom lying next to her on a rollaway cot. “They found her body in America. She froze to death, trapped beneath her hovercraft. Her skin was frozen bleu.”… more ›

I-83 intersects with itself just outside of Baltimore. It’s a cold day, and the snow is really piling up outside the hovercraft. Veterinarian Sue Harky is contemplating returning to from where she just arrived: Santiago. The hovercraft gets caught in… more ›

Tom YestemTom YesteshTom YestTom YesteshmeeTom YesteshcheyTom SongThere I am.There you are.There he is.There we are.There you are.They’re there.There there, don’t you cry, Lupita. I promise I won’t refer to you any more as “la puta” for it is you, after… more ›

Professor X was just about to retire from the local community college when he was fired after his next-to-the-last lecture–the lecture in which he argued that Socrates was a fiction, a mere character in some rather badly written dialogues by… more ›

Sue Harky had just arrived at the Berlin Zoo via hovercraft from Amsterdam. She would leave in a chariot pulled by two enormous polar bears. How she came to be traveling by polar “bear” express is still being sorted out.… more ›

During the ‘80s, Sam Heedrin drank lots of soda pop as he tried to decide the most pressing issue of his young life: was he a greater fan of Dr. Noah Drake on ABC’s General Hospital or of Mr. Rick… more ›

There were 78 monkeys in the Berlin Zoo: Cappuccino, Frappuccino, Macaque, Maka-monkey, Outta-me, Ape, Red, White, and of course Bleu, Howler, Bowler, Snow White, Snow Flake, Snow Ball, Rhesus Pieces, Spider, Squirrel, Champ the Chimp, Gorilla My Dreams, Baboon, Vavoom,… more ›

In Chapter 1 of Bleu’s The Duchamp Code, Professor X delivers a lecture entitled “Late Zoroastrianism and the Cult of Mithra” at the community college. Tom Yest sits in the front row. Two rows behind him sit Max Block and… more ›