Harobed TALES

          BEST SERVED HOT- THE SCAR About five minutes later, we arrived at Chief's house to a police van parked outside and several horrible spectacles running through my mind. We were denied entry and had to join the gathered crowd, which was already thick with rumors. The policemen soon emerged bearing a bundle, and the worst of my imaginations was confirmed.    It was Patrick, wrapped in a curtain and pulled by the limbs and very much dead. The curtain was literally soaked with blood and dripping, and an errant part of my mind wondered at the enormous quantity of blood that was in the human body. Upon attempting to maneuver through the narrow entrance of the gate, the curtain slipped and our friend's body slipped out, showing three gruesome stab wounds on his lower back where his shirt rode up.  The murmuring crowd fell silent as the officers, looking all bored as though they dealt with such every day, r...

‘A TALE BY JIMMY ARNIS’ It was common knowledge that Chief was rotten. In fact, not so much common knowledge as a deep rock steady belief that he was a nefarious incarnate. Jokes even flew around that he should have been cast as Gru in the cartoon Despicable Me, except while the cartoon was okay for a five year old, Chief's activities would corrupt a man way into his thirties.   Suffice to say that if Gru was the Disney definition of the word despicable, then Chief was all the dictionary definitions. And trust me when I say those are not pretty.   But as Terry Goodkind rightly said, 'People are stupid’, and when you do come to think about it, yes! They are. It is common knowledge that smoking kills and alcohol is a menace, yet we have a large percentage of people who liberally engage in that stuff ,without a scintilla of thought for the outcome. And so even with possession of the knowledge that Chief was so flagitious, he probably had more maggots in his psych...