The Replies Book

The last place they wanted to visit was Diatribe.

This has been created as a place in a new story you will be able to read soon.

In this case soon means within a year to eighteen months from now. 

Something to be excited about.

Just in case there was nothing else to anticipate!

A side order of leather belts and blue onions.

Some things seem to have a detailed description but are not so appealing.

The chance of something vague and mysterious being just right can be a better bet. More, a better result.

All bets are off. 

If they give you the menu. 

More or less.

They were blue and green.

Three rivers, two beds and a mountain.

It had been a long journey.

Singing and music.

Your performance time.

Don’t laugh now, laugh later.

The first down payment was a chuckle.

The second down payment was a giggle.

Then there was the funny story about the person who made the first down payment and chuckled and then the second one and giggled.

This is a mathematical problem. How many people actually laughed?

Yes, some problems cannot be solved just because they are “described” as mathematical. Trust your own internal calculator! 

They raised the bridge and the enormous iron barge move slowly through the opening. 

Six days later people in the nearby town were eating mushrooms and cucumbers for the first time. 

Twenty days later a sightseeing boat moved past the open bridge and dropped the passengers off at a riverside cheese tasting room. 

Many remembered the day of the decision. That was the day they decided to build the bridge.