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Jakob’s Idea

Jakob had an idea. It was a stupendous idea, a marvelous idea, a fabulous idea.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t remember what it was.

He asked his garbage man. He asked his barber. He asked a woman at the grocery store. They couldn’t remember, either.

Jakob’s dog knew, but she wasn’t telling.

The Beginning of the End

The day after the day all the fruit disappeared, I broke into a grocery store in the middle of the night. It was a ghost town: the empty aisles were strewn with plastic bags lit by ghastly signs declaring, “We Still Have Vegetables!”

The Vitamin C pills were already gone.