News In the Literary Review

Eight authors were killed today, some of them, somewhat prominent, and an unknown number were injured, when a very large crowd of words came rushing toward them, and crushed them under the throng Hundreds of onlooking readers were aghast at the sight of surprised writers, running from the tens of thousands of words, phrases, and stanzas shouting loud rhyming, some carrying sharpened prose A bloody mass of heaping humanity was cast over the civil edge into a brownish-reddish swaled blog beside as poets, slammers, and lyricists fled Many widows and orphans sat beside the ruck, weeping softly near the edges of their pages, stunned, stupefied, even utterly dumbfounded as multi-syllabic words flashed their anger, and chased the writers to a gruesome end Diphthongs and anagrams on the scene said that they'd never seen such a riot of language or a plethora of grammatical constituents rise up against their mortal masters The literary community is expressing their deepened sorrow and angst with a spontaneous outpouring of pens, pencils steno pads, and small digital tablets left at the scene of the rampage Editors, secretaries, and linguists unified to say that the guilty will be found, caught, and expunged from the lexicography of modern civil discourse and authorship "Words cannot express our feelings" they said © Goode Guy 2013-02-12