Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
bernacle, home of the Church of Our Holy Lady Luck and ATM, where you
can get round-the-clock break-
  

    

ins, whether you like it or not, un-
  

    
til the global economy im-
  

    

plies otherwise, which many people hope for.  Others, though, grow im-
  

    
patient and nag each and every member of Con-
  

    

stance's wedding party until they packed themselves so full of champagne 
that the re-
  

    
asons for attending--the reasons for Constance's wedding for that
matter--were obscure, if not downright conf-
  

    
ustibating and in complete opposition to all the known laws of quantum
phy- 
  

    
llo dough, which unlike ordinary non-quantum phyllo dough, is known to
turn a deep, clear azure blue before collapsing upon itself in the hot
ov-
  

    

altine, a well known soporific whose sleep inducing properties rival
those of bar-
  

    
bands that play covers of all of 1984-87's hit songs, with the odd
exception of "Touch Of Gr-
  

    

uel," the moving song from the musical about all of those poor kids who 
didn't have enough money for tic-
  

    
tacs, so they had no social lives as a result, except for their time
spent on Facebook and Tw-
  

    

izzler, a novel social website organized around a virtual reality
environment inspired by "Candyland" and dedicated to political ac-
  

    

cents and sweet ideals.  What nobody realized at the time, however, was 
that no-
  

    
thing from nothing leaves no-
  

    

table impressions on much of the population, conditioned as they are to 
view science fiction as commonplace as ex-
  

    
haling, or at least waiting to ex-
  

    
amine the evidence himself before coming to any conclusions about the ver-
  

    
tical stripes printed so clearly on the wallpaper of the li-
  

    
brary.  Keeps people from falling asleep in there, I guess, but it's a lit-
  

    
tle disconcerting as it clashes terribly with the hori-
  

    

zon filigreed by urban fractal reflections of cubic modular
skyscrapers and architecturally impoverished minimansions inducing
monomaniacal psy-
  

    
chics to open up their own phone li-
  

    
tigation firms, specializing in paranormal torts, rorts, and ghostly
malfeasance via telecommunication dev-