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The Clown Apocalypse
The Clown Apocalypse is a series of flash fictions that cover the horrors of the Bozo Virus.Years later, the survivors discovered the Bozo Virus got its start at Escola de Clown de Girona, near the end of semester.
The “Esclowna” was a kind of university/prep school for the international clowning set. The buffoons-in-training lived in common dorm rooms, and shared everything, so the virus spread easily within the school. There it incubated. (The school was at least 30 kilometers from the nearest village in Spain.)
They developed flu-like symptoms, and then recovered, but of course, everyone at the school was a clown, or a clown-in-training, already. So the worst of the symptoms went unnoticed, until after they matriculated. When the school year was over, the faculty, staff and students went to their respective home countries, throughout the world, and began to perform as clowns: at birthday parties, in old folks homes, in circuses, at rodeos, and on the street.
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Remembering the Beard Wars
“Captain Chiggerson, can you hear me? Captain?”
“I can hear you! I’m blind, not deaf.”
“Sorry Captain, but you didn’t seem to be responding,” the historian asked. He was a young man, and was frankly shocked by the Captain’s long beard, his lifeless eyes. He’d met many veterans of the Beard Wars, but he’d never gotten used to their dead stares, their broken minds, their creepy long beards.
“Well, I was thinking,” Captain Chiggerson explained.
“About the war?”