I like cows.

My passion is ...

Writing.

I know too much about ...

Writing and shoelaces.

My parents always told me ...

Fear nothing when you're in the right..

My childhood ambition ...

Be a bum.

My favorite memory ...

Camp Akita..

Why I write ...

See above.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading questions on Helium, watching the monitor, listening to the computer hum.

My first job ...

Cutting grass.

My best moment ...

Saving a guy's life from an angry mob who had kicked his skull against the road, trying to kill him.

My inspiration ...

Words.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Courtroom humor

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The traffic court district attorney dismissed another offender from interview and looked out at all the guilty people filling the courtroom and sitting in the finest and most expensive oak seats that they'd probably ever use. He read from his docket and called the next name on the list: "Frog!? Walter Danby Frog!"

"I beg your pardon," a man with a ridiculous mustache and a cigar in his hand stood up, "that's Freuaxg!" He stepped toward the DA and halted before the podeum. "Fr-oh-jhuh, Walter Danby Freauxg. You've gotta get it in your throat. Freauxg."

"Mr. Freauxg?"

"Yeah, that's i...

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