Words That Tickle

The ingredients of this smorgasbord, this set of unrelated stories, have a common feature - they all tickle the taste buds that causes mirth. Someone scanned this set of stories and asked what the purpose was - why I wrote them or what I hoped to achieve with them. The answer is simple - I did not write it for any purpose! I played with words as an artist with hues and brushes. I strung together ideas and even half ideas. The result, I'm sure, is much better than the efforts of twelve monkeys with typewriters and unlimited supply of paper and ribbon for a period of twenty years.Dedicated to the memory of Vinay Venkatesh.