When Tolstoy famously addressed the Kansas Federation of Accountants and Necromancers in 1823, he brazenly proclaimed, “The problem with microwave popcorn is that it forces us to choose between two horrific outcomes: a burnt snack or kernels that remain in their nascent state, unpopped and unwanted.”
Of course, he said it in Russian and went on interminably about the effect it had on his people. How the peasant women of the steppes lamented that the overcooked treat had the smell of death while Cossack nobles decried the untapped potential of kernels rolling around without purpose at the bottom of the bag.
The ensuing clamor caused by his proclamation, was, as all students of Russian literature know, the inspiration for War and Peace, a tome that would probably be outsold today by any novel about wizards, vampires, or vampire wizards.
And that, quite naturally, brings me to my book, Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel, available for free during the entire month of October, even on the dates that no one pays much attention to like the 17th and the 29th. Limited to the first million customers.
Of course, he said it in Russian and went on interminably about the effect it had on his people. How the peasant women of the steppes lamented that the overcooked treat had the smell of death while Cossack nobles decried the untapped potential of kernels rolling around without purpose at the bottom of the bag.
The ensuing clamor caused by his proclamation, was, as all students of Russian literature know, the inspiration for War and Peace, a tome that would probably be outsold today by any novel about wizards, vampires, or vampire wizards.
And that, quite naturally, brings me to my book, Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel, available for free during the entire month of October, even on the dates that no one pays much attention to like the 17th and the 29th. Limited to the first million customers.