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 may 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
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	Gort	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 (1)
Is that a Gun in your Pocket?	The Great Malaxo	Big Ed

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