7David
Gunn [composer, writer, isosogist]
Postcard parables
are short stories from the flip sides of picture postcards
that, over the past few years, I’ve
either found or created, then mailed to my
friend
Pamela Polston (a.k.a. Queen Quantoo). A standard U.S. postcard
measures only
5½"×3½", but ever since I got hold of a
really
teeny typewriter, I’ve managed to squeeze up to 450 words of
crucial
exposition into one story. For ever shaggier tales in the offing, I’ll include a link to a pair of reading glasses.
| Acme Tent | Collectomometer | King Bob | Open Range | Torobongo |
| Agent Jetglas | Convertin | Lake Portage | Ozzie and
Tanya | Trigger, Part 1 |
| At Carnegie | Dear Patty (1) | Leaf Peepers | Phyllis’
Transformation | Trigger, Part 2 |
| Atomic
Robot Corp. | Dear Patty (2) | Loch Ness | Pied du
Gorille | Trigger, Part 3 |
| Baby Quantoo | Doris’
Piano | Lois | Pie R Squared | Tuna P.
Wiggle |
| Balloonman | Dr. Beezer | Longsnouts | Pringler Hat | Ulnuf |
| Bat Mann | Eat At ... | Louie Louie | Professor
Smacko | What You Want |
| Bicycle Queen | Eating Right | Lulu | Queen Quantoo | Willie Sutton |
| Big Gingham | Esther’s
Inheritance | Marge | Red Team | Wobblies |
| Black Bart | Farmer Brown | Mascaraman | RMS Olympic | Yarngirl |
| Blanche’s
Bad Dream | First Aid | McGillicuddy
Sisters | Sedoña
Cactus | Zontamk,
Part 1 |
| Bonnie
and Clyde | Flora
and Flossie | Merle’s
Headache | Sheila | Zontamk,
Part 2 |
| Boondock | Fred | Mick Rat | Sour Grapes | Zontamk,
Part 3 |
| Collette’s Big Hat | What’s Behind Rags? | The Power of Suggestion | | In the Kitchen at Midnight |
| Boys in the
Band | From Ventnor | Milt | Stepford Plan | The
Decapitamometer |
| Brad’s
Bad Day | Gerard | MoleTown | The Fence | The Pringler
Call Center |
| Bud Bottoms | Gert Jonnys | Moon Mullet | The
Hairdresser | Starbucks |
| Buddy | First Contact
| Mr. Garibaldi | The Whale | Armed and Dangerous |
| Bunnysaurs | I’m
Melting | Mr. Television | The Zenith | The Bubble Dome |
| Bunyip
Bedpans | Jacques
Spratt | Ninjas | Tidybowlman | Never-U-Fail |
| Cementland | Jim Bango | Oh, Noh! | Tony the Toe | Casa Shirley
|
| Benö
Guttman | Pedro Piper | The
Preventilator | The Pringler
Chimneysweeper | The Double A’s |
| That
Lightheaded Feeling | Or Best Offer | Clobber and Fungie | Aquerulous | Triomegunberg |
| Olé | The Slug | At the
Banketbakkerij | The Braincage | The
McGillicuddy Backstory |
| Is that a Gun in
your Pocket? | The Great Malaxo | Big Ed | Schwinndjammer | Sunhats |
| Bésame
Mucho | Queen
Quantoo’s Change of Life | The MMRL | Gretchen’s
Songbirds | La maison du nez |
| The Hypnagogue | Dora the
Demolition Dancer | How Many Fingers? | For better or
for worse | Julie
and L’étrange |
Caveat Emptor
| Fidough and
RoveR | Aqua Nun | The Dog
Whisperer | What Knot? |
| Fred and
Freda | The Soothsayer | The Apple
Pickers | Florsheim | Wrongheadedness |
| The Kyphosis Cure | The
Ventriloquist | The
Somnambulist | Identical Twins | Funny Money |
| The Dish and the
Spoon | The Fly | The Perm | Calamity at the
Debutante Ball | What Lemuel Hath
Wrought |
| Missfallen Sie
nicht Ilse! | The Third
Corollary | Convert-a-Gender™ | Jarabe
Tapatío | The Windows of
Luigi Peccadillo |
| Nora | Acme Adult
Diaper Co. | Personal
Secretary | Meptang, Merchant
of Chains | Jumbo’s
Blind Date |
| Forkman | Robin’s
Eggs | The
Acupressurer | Eye of the Hurricane | Captane
Jujjoo |
| Nettie and
Betty | Edna Sue and the
DNCR | How Big? | Pothead | No
Complainer, He! |
| The Drac-u-Latte | The
Perfect Likeness | The Iceman Cometh | Lola
Palooza Airways | Nutri-Clyster |
| Next
Available | The Woxes | Duck and
Cover | The Rockettes | Clear
Enunciation |
| High Society | The
Transferatron | Silver Queen | Cloak and
Dagger | Acme
Dance Partner |
| The
Vasectomizer | Laksheesh | Spoonful of Honey | The
Liposuctionizer | Dr.
Pincatcher’s Legacy |
| The Class
Project | The Dowser | Collateral
Damage | The Manicure | The First Step |
| Jaws | Jeeves | Queen of
the Night | King
Sullivan’s Mine | The Brand
in Demand™ |
| World’s Funniest Joke | Ding! | Skeeters | Flingspearing | Out-of-Body |
| The
Expandomometer | At Chez Kibble | Dalton versus
Brutus | Secret Shriner
Handshake | Esther |
| Fluffy | Across
the Steppes | Julie Jupiter | An
Embarrassing Moment | World’s Greatest Wiper |
| Goo Goo G’joob | The
Daring Dinklakers | The Zaparo Brothers | Multitasking | Les Flambeaux |
Alfred Eisenstatic
| The Hyper-eyeballometer | The Mobile Phone
| A Fish Story | Head in a Tuba |
| The Carney | The Flamboni Way | Kitchen Magician | The Venus Flydress | Boxing Day |
| The Preakness, 1956 | Pickleberry Jam | You Are Getting ... Sleeeepy | The Everly Brothers | Early Gort
|
| The Boy Who Walked on Water | Whither the Crumbsnatcher? | Lot’s Lot | Point and Shoot | Toast |
| Forrest amongst the Trees | Transformer | The Model 5 | Amazing Amelia | Ringaround |
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