Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

When I was a kid, my Aunt Marney used to read all those tabloid magazines and True Romances and sometimes she'd leave them at my house. The tabloids were those of the more extra-special sort like Elvis spotted using a Port O'Pot in Pittsburg, mutant pigman treated in NY hospital, or dog digs up bones of prehistoric catwoman. Now you know the seeds of my crazy ideas! It really made an impression on a 10-year-old, especially when I didn't realize that those newspapers were totally fake. Well, the World Wide News is stopping its presses for good and I was reading the article about their farewell and their interesting stories. Though none is stranger than a percentage of their readers who actually believed what the WWN published, as evident by one reader who responded to a picture of Hillary Clinton holding an alien baby. The headline said that Hillary has adopted an alien baby. The reader wrote in and complained that the photograph had to be doctored—Hillary was too cold hearted to adopt an alien baby, so they must've superimposed her head on someone's body.

I kid you not. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Got some more writing done this morning. I'm introducing the other characters and considering how I spent a year in one character's head in Dark Earth, it's been really fun to jump from different characters' POVs. Let's hope this continues ... fingers crossed, knock on wood, and a good luck kiss from the mutant pigman.