Gom Goes Undercover!
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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Freeze! I am The Robot Cop.
If I was a cop who got murdered, I would certainly hope that someone would have the decency to turn my corpse into a kind of half-man, half-robot guy. What better way for my wife and young son to ease themselves into the grieving process than to know that I’m still…
An Excerpt from my Really Short Detective Novel
Detective Stone and I made one hell of a team. Sure we were different, but I truly believed that it was our differences that were going to make us unstoppable. Stone was by the book: using gloves and bags to gather evidence while I would just pick things up with my bare hands, sniff it, and put it in my pocket.
Our differences didn’t end just with our work on the force, Lord no! Even our methods of seduction were different. Detective Stone stuck to the old ways: a nice suit, romantic dinner, and good conversation, while I opted for a more direct approach: Pulling a portion of my scrotum through my fly and then asking women if I had gum stuck to my pants. A few hours later, we found out that I wasn’t really a detective at all – just a guy who had wandered in to eat donuts after a night spent sleeping under a car.
