An old man on a flight up the California coast tells the young stranger sitting beside him about a famous movie villain that had lived next door to him when he was a boy. An actor who was known for playing mad scientists and vampires, but in real life had been a remarkably kind and gentle man. And while his fame hasn’t endured the way Boris Karloff’s has, at the time even movie critics who panned the films he was in admitted that this startlingly ugly man brought a rare sensitivity to the types of roles he specialized in, as if he knew these monsters’ private pain.

Then the teller’s story takes a strange left turn. Claims about the actor’s suicide that---as preposterous as they might sound---would be nice to believe. That rather than drowning himself on that rainy day in March of 1941, Max Grosz had found his way to a second chance at life, and a very different sort of acting career that would win the hearts of a nation...

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Ma‘at

Revised Chapter 4
By Itinerant
Edited by Amelia R.

"This is fan fiction for the Whateley Academy series. It may or may not match the timeline, characters, and continuity, but since it's fan fiction, who cares? To see the canon Whateley Stories, check out either Sapphire's Place (http://www.sapphireplace.com/stories/whateley.html) or the Big Closet (http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/taxonomy/term/117)."

Notorious hatemonger Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps gets a visit from those loveable Warner siblings Yakko, Wakko & Dot, who adopt him as their "new special friend". What can I say? Some people just really need to have an anvil dropped on their head.

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"Stop it with the wise ass remarks," I said angrily. "You aren't helping. I'm trying the best I can. It's six years at least since I swung a club, and longer since I played regularly."

Tree looked long and hard at me.

"I need your help. So help me," I said.

"Okay, but this is going to be a long day." 

The Great Shift- Mulligans Part One

Synopsis- Two working stiffs for Pepsi-Cola, named George and Mike, become LPGA golfers thanks to the Great Shift. Part One details the aftermath of the Shift and how George challenges the golfer's caddy into making a professional golfer out of the former truck driver.