STORY DIRECTORY (non-linked) for VOLUME 2 – at a glance! 133 The Promethean Award – Part 1 134 2 Interviews 135 The Promethean Award – Part 2 136 The Promethean…

And the winner is… The reception hall is glutted with garbage, held together in a contiguous mound by sludge and shit. The canvas of flies covering it is sickening to…

These things happen. Let’s try to hold on to a little dignity, shall we? INTERVIEW 1 All-Ukrainian State Interview Authority of Ukraine (IA): Moe – are you stupid? Moe Zaire:…

Lard in hospital, Losser on a talk show… Lard in a hospital bed in Kyiv, reading the news on his notebook and talking to himself: Let’s see here. Now I…

Lard in his hospital bed. Suddenly, he starts up, shocked by what he’s seeing on the TV. He narrates the action out loud as it unfolds: Hey! What’s this? A…

At the church near its children’s home just outside Kyiv… The mouth widens in a smile of thin red lips around square white teeth. The black hole in that face…

Is it possible The Ferret is going insane? The Ferret sits at computer writing concerned email to Welsh Losser: Dear Welsh Losser, I think the Kyiv Unedited site, which did…

Evil knoweth no man like man knoweth evil… Lard is reading the latest issue of the Kyiv Poster in his hospital bed. “Dang,” he says, “that boy is ugly. And…

Now, Welsh Losser, permanently disfigured by his hanging – masterminded by Andrew Plumb, grinding his axe against cosmic injustice – is in hospital waiting with great patience and hope for…

“[P]lenty of successful people are far from mental giants”  – Raymond Chandler, from “The Long Goodbye”… and vice versa… So now Bo Lard, formerly Boss Lard, Board Director of The…