One Eternal Night at the Universal Whiskey Bar by Nicole Terry Yeah, Satan's been lying to us this entire time. Satan and God sat down over beers one eternal night at the universal whiskey bar. They tossed back a few while Deliberating conversation prolonged by sudden philosophical Elaborations. Through gales of laughter and spilled beer, God and Satan created what will have become Considered, Authored, and Incorporated as their grandest practical joke. God and Satan first swapped kingdoms, paid their drink tab, found the nearest Intelligent beings; then just before Declaring mutual parallel Retirement, sold their idea to an advertising company where it was Insured and Demanded to a relatively savage race of carbon-based life-forms exchanged for Labor, perpetuated by the simple fact said carbon-based life-forms continually failed to see the joke. Quite disappointed by this eventual display of mind-numbing niceness, God/Satan permanently sold the copyrights of their invention to corporate entities, then just as promptly winked out of existence. © Copyright 2008 Nicole Terry ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [back to Prose]  [more Writings]