"The morning news will not be the same without the foul specter of Richard Nixon glaring out of the tube. But the war is over now and he lost....Gone but not forgotten, missed but not mourned; we will not see another one like him for quite a while. He was dishonest to a fault, the truth was not in him, and if it can be said that he resembled any other living animal in the world, it could only have been the hyena."
~~Hunter S. Thompson, from "The Scum Also Rises" (1974, on Nixon's resignation)
Here's a start for a round robin writing game. Any takers?
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It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.
I knew where it would end, too. Call it a premonition. Before the day was
out, I’d be t...
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