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Paradise Bound
“Is this China?” a grey goose whispered from the cargo ship’s hull. “Have we fallen over the edge of the earth yet?”
“I don’t know,” came a duck in the dark. “I think so.”
Mel was Magnificent
It was here one night somewhere on the waves of the Atlantic Ocean that Mel had announced an edict in which he proclaimed himself Pope Magnificent and his ascension to the throne as the protector and Holy-See of all animals, great and small. This was followed by dismay because none of them ever knew a throne existed or where?
“This is the New World,” the newly minted Pope Magnificent declared, wearing the wide-brimmed red straw hat and white linen cassock and regalia. “America, our last place on earth before our heavenly ascension, and where the Lord shall set upon the throne.”
