by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
FOUL SEWER OGRESDisgustibus malodorus subterraneus RANGE: The drains and cisterns, goosenecks and septic tanks, culverts and aqueducts of America are the dark domain of the Foul Sewer Ogres. Each night, they emerge, unbidden, onto the surface—like repressed urges,...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE BUGBEARBacchus paccus RANGE: The Bugbear is a wind-spirit: something between a breath of fresh air and a neuralgia-inducing draft. She beckons us onward through Death Valley, upward to the Rockies, downward into the depths of Carlsbad Caverns, outward through the...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
JACK Β. NIMBUSJupiter pluvius RANGE: From the hurricane-harried trailer parks of the Keys to twistertormented Texas trails, through the earthquake-shaking guacamole ranches of California, up through the fog-sodden bogs of the Northwest, across the snowbound,...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SPIRIT OF ’76Ε pluribus, pluribus RANGE: It would be pleasant to report that this admirable, supernatural entity is present and active at all times, in all American states and territories, that she hovers eternally above every farm and forest, town and city,...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
MUGWUMPSPhilibusterus gubernatorius RANGE: Mugwumps are found, and have always been found, and will always be found, at every level of federal, state, county, municipal, and local politics. They are a whoopee cushion upon the seat of government, a holdful of bilge on...
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