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David Perlmutter's avatar

MAD magazine taught me that word...

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Switter’s World's avatar

Mad Magazine taught me that when her young suitor sang “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, drop thy golden hair, that I may climb thine golden stair,” the golden stair she dropped was her armpit hair, which he didn’t discover until he reached the source. The artist was the great Don Martin.

The image left me scarred. Not long after, a semi-literate friend asked me to write a love wanted ad, and for no extra charge, I included “body hair acceptable but not preferred.” I thought it best to take no chances.

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J.R. Spiers's avatar

This was a great read, David

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Neil Barker's avatar

Great line: "If there’s one thing that’s catnip to any adventurer, male or female, it’s people in distress. So I heeded the call."

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Virginia Neely's avatar

I chuckled all through this. Candace is quite the girl.

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

Very cool. Thank you, David

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J.R. Spiers's avatar

It had great dialogue and humor and kept me waiting to see what would happen next! You never disappoint!

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Yana Bostongirl's avatar

Wow - I have never quite read something like this from you before 🔥 - the heroine has brothers who are an alchemist and sorcerer and she fell for a troll in human form? Quite the ride indeed!

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Jill Ebstein's avatar

You continue to make me laugh. For example:

"The milk comes from what are known scientifically as mammary glands, but are more commonly known as breasts. Even more commonly known as jugs, knockers, tits, hooters, or ta-tas, but those aren’t polite things to tell girls they have even if they got ‘em. A lot of us are pretty self-conscious about ours..."

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