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	<title>Splarks Blog &#187; Extreme Optimism</title>
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	<description>Short fiction involving marsupials, mad scientists, pez dispensers, good critters gone bad, irreverent behavior, unfortunate names, and existential crises.  Funny, bizarre stories and WTF humor.</description>
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		<title>Bertrand the Serial Killer&#8217;s Bad Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[D and I were sitting in bland TGI Friday&#8217;s-style restaurant when we started thinking about how often parents expect their children to carry on the family business, despite whether or not the kid is interested in it or good at it.  What happens if more nefarious parents wanted their children to carry on the family [...]


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		<title>Ulrich the Tooth Goblin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun sank low on the dirty gray horizon, and Ulrich watched the tiny glows of the fairies rising into the sky as they hurried to their assignments.  He imagined the fading red rays shining on their iridescent wings, and he craned his neck to stare at his own bedraggled wings hanging rodent-like down his [...]


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		<title>Julius the Water Buffalo, resurrected!</title>
		<link>http://splarks.com/blog/2007/12/09/26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh my. I found an old story that Dave Goff from Gestalt Digital (www.gestaltdigital.com) kindly formatted and found pictures for several years ago. I thought I had lost it forever, but no, it lives in infamy and I&#8217;ll post the scanned copy here to amuse/horrify/stupify you. Happy Holidays! No related posts.


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